During a train journey from Central Europe to Rome, characters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice. One single journey sparks many changes for many people.
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| Carlo Delle Piane | ... |
Professor
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| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | ... |
PR Lady
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| Silvana De Santis | ... |
Italian Lady
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| Filippo Trojano | ... |
Filippo
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| Martin Compston | ... |
Jamesy
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Gary Maitland | ... |
Spaceman
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| William Ruane | ... |
Frank
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Blerta Cahani | ... |
Albanian Family Girl
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Klajdi Qorraj | ... |
Albanian Family Boy
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Aishe Gjuriqi | ... |
Albanian Family Mother
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Sanije Dedja | ... |
Albanian Family Grandmother
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Kledi Salaj | ... |
Albanian Family Baby
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Edmond Budina | ... |
Albanian Family Father
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Danilo Nigrelli | ... |
Man With Mobile
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Carolina Benvenga | ... |
Girl
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Marta Mangiucca | ... |
Other Girl
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Irene Bufo | ... |
Woman in Red
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Roberto Nobile | ... |
Ticket Collector
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Mauro Pirovano | ... |
Ticket Collector
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Eugenia Costantini | ... |
Italian Travelling Girl
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| Chiara Gensini | ... |
Italian Travelling Girl
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Maria De Los Angeles Parrinello | ... |
Italian Travelling Girl
(as Maria de Los Angeles Parrinello)
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Viviana Strambelli | ... |
Italian Travelling Girl
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Alberto Azarya | ... |
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
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Barry Cameron | ... |
Scottish Tourist (uncredited)
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Gianluigi De Lucchi | ... |
Gentleman (uncredited)
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| Maurizio Tabani | ... |
(uncredited)
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Directed by
| Abbas Kiarostami | ||
| Ken Loach | ||
| Ermanno Olmi | ||
Written by
| Ermanno Olmi | ... | (screenplay) & |
| Abbas Kiarostami | ... | (screenplay) & |
| Paul Laverty | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
| Gianluca Chiaretti | ... | line producer |
| Carlo Cresto-Dina | ... | producer |
| Babak Karimi | ... | producer |
| Rebecca O'Brien | ... | producer |
| Domenico Procacci | ... | producer |
| Paul Trijbits | ... | executive producer |
Music by
| George Fenton | ||
Cinematography by
| Mahmoud Kalari | ||
| Chris Menges | ||
| Fabio Olmi | ||
Editing by
| Babak Karimi | ||
| Jonathan Morris | ||
| Giovanni Ziberna | ||
Editorial Department
| Francesco Loffredo | ... | assistant editor |
| Federica Ravera | ... | assistant editor |
| Jason Wheeler | ... | negative cutter |
Casting By
| Genti Minga | ||
| Laura Muccino | ||
| Annamaria Sambucco | ||
Art Direction by
| Alessandro Vannucci | ||
Costume Design by
| Maurizio Basile | ||
| Carole Millar | ... | (as Carole K. Millar) |
Makeup Department
| Fernanda Perez | ... | key makeup artist |
Production Management
| Maria Continella | ... | production manager |
| Shuna Frood | ... | post-production supervisor |
| Roberta Licurgo | ... | production manager |
| Valeria Licurgo | ... | executive in charge of production |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Duccio Fabbri | ... | first assistant director |
| Giuseppe Ferlito | ... | second assistant director |
| Gaia Gorrini | ... | first assistant director |
| Emanuele Guerrini | ... | second assistant director |
| Babak Karimi | ... | first assistant director |
| Federico Nuti | ... | second assistant director |
Sound Department
| Daniela Bassani | ... | sound editor |
| Ray Beckett | ... | sound mixer |
| Ben Brazier | ... | sound editor |
| Stefano Grosso | ... | sound effects editor |
| John Hayward | ... | re-recording mixer |
| Francesco Liotard | ... | sound mixer |
| Maricetta Lombardo | ... | sound |
| Luca Novelli | ... | boom operator |
| Richard Pryke | ... | re-recording mixer |
| Stefano Slocovich | ... | boom operator |
| Gianluca Stazi | ... | sound effects recordist |
| Andrew Caller | ... | re-recording mixer (uncredited) |
| Mark Kenna | ... | consultant: Dolby film sound (uncredited) |
Visual Effects by
| Ercole Cosmi | ... | visual effects |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Leonardo Beltrame | ... | electrician |
| Filippo D'Antoni | ... | video assistant |
| Francesca D'Antoni | ... | assistant camera |
| Chico de Luigi | ... | still photographer |
| Simone Ginanneschi | ... | second assistant camera |
| Stefano Marino | ... | gaffer |
| Chris Menges | ... | camera operator |
| Elvis Musicco | ... | electrician |
| Jovica Nonkovic | ... | gaffer / second assistant camera |
| Massimiliano Pantucci | ... | camera operator |
| Armando Trivellini | ... | assistant camera |
Casting Department
| William Ruane | ... | casting assistant |
Additional Crew
| Manuela Cavallari | ... | press |
| Laura Cimarelli | ... | production accountant |
| Raffaella Di Giulio | ... | production assistant |
| Marinella Di Rosa | ... | press |
| Layla Mall | ... | production assistant |
| Federica Ravera | ... | editor assistant |
| Daniela Staffa | ... | press |
Thanks
| Chris Auty | ... | thanks |
| Alessandro Calosci | ... | thanks |
| Kahleen Crawford | ... | thanks |
| Mohammad Reza Delpak | ... | thanks |
| Loredana Detto | ... | thanks |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Artificial Eye (2005) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Medusa Distribuzione (2005) (Italy)
- 1More Film (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Cinequanon (2006) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Madman Entertainment (2006) (Australia)
- Madman Entertainment (2006) (New Zealand)
- A-Film Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Facets Multimedia Distribution (2006) (United States) (DVD)
- Filmarti (2010) (Turkey)
Special Effects
- Cine Image Film Opticals (main and end titles)
Other Companies
- Film Finances (completion guarantor)
- Malde & Co. (auditors)
- Sapex Scripts (post-production script services)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
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| Taglines | Three Highly Acclaimed Directors... A Story of Love, Chance and Sacrifice. See more » |
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Box Office
| Opening Weekend Italy | EUR101,285, 27 Mar 2005 |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | The making of Tickets started with a conversation between director Abbas Kiarostami and producers Carlo Cresto-Dina and Babak Karimi. Kiarostami suggested the idea of a trilogy of feature-length documentaries to be directed by three different directors. When asked to name the directors he would have liked to have on board, he immediately mentioned Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach. A fax was sent to the two masters who both immediately replied with an almost identical phone call: 'I am in! The three of us can make tremendous work together'. The story was conceived in sequence by Ermanno Olmi (who first came up with a story of an old scientist on a train), Abbas Kiarostami (who picked up some of Olmi's characters and continued the plot) and finally Ken Loach (who, with writer Paul Laverty, introduced new characters and stories but at the same time concluded Olmi's initial plot). The film is all set on a train, travelling from central Europe to Rome. Stories and characters will interweave like casual encounters on a second class intercity train. Some of the sequences were jointly directed by the three together. The editing then gelled together the stories in a single storyline. See more » |
| Goofs | The form of the text that the Italian pharmacologist is writing on his laptop is inconsistent between the close-up shots and the longer-distance ones: the laptop is a Windows machine, and the longer-distance show the Windows operating system, but the close-ups are of the modern Macintosh operating system. See more » |
| Soundtracks | 24 preludes op.28 See more » |