A production that aims to renew the collective imagination of the castle whose fame helped spread the film Ladyhawke in the mid-80s.

In the castle of Torrechiara the production has found the perfect settings to tell some of the highlights of the film Verona, the preparation operations for the filming of the feature film entitled “Verona” started on November 17th, which will involve the castle and part of the village. The musical film is inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, directed by Timothy Scott Bogart and set design by Oscar winner Dante Ferretti, with the participation of a cast of international value. The doors of the village transformed into a real set have opened, immersing the citizens and the streets in the late medieval period.

The production has found in the municipalities of Langhirano with its Torrechiara and in Castell’Arquato the perfect settings to tell some of the highlights of the film.

The choice of the Castle of Torrechiara also came under a collaboration agreement recently signed between the Regional Directorate of Museums and the Emilia-Romagna Region, in order to enhance the regional museum heritage through the promotion and development of national and international film productions that identify museums and places of state culture as locations for filming.

All this has been possible thanks to the usual effectiveness of the relationship between the Emilia-Romagna Region and local authorities, now better defined in a collaboration agreement aimed at promoting the activity of the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.

With this new film project, the Castle of Torrechiara returns to be once again the place of choice for productions of the highest level. The manor, used as a set in 1981 for the film The tragedy of a ridiculous man directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and four years later for the aforementioned Ladyhawke, directed by Richard Donner, over the years has also been chosen as Location for television miniseries, such as The Charterhouse of Parma directed by Cinzia TH Torrini in 2012 and The Borgias, a Franco-German television series created in 2014 by Tom Fontana, but also for music videos such as the song It’s about us (1995) by singer-songwriter Giorgia and If you weren’t here (2012) by singer-songwriter Umberto Tozzi.