Rai Cinema strengthens its new global sales unit at Cannes with 4 titles, including Toni Servillo-Starrer “The Blunder” (Exclusive)

The new global sales arm of Italian public broadcaster Rai is gaining traction in Cannes — after its soft launch in Berlin — with four new titles to its catalog, including veteran auteur Roberto Andò’s historical drama “The Blunder » with Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”).

In “The Blunder,” currently filming in Sicily, Servillo plays a Sicilian colonel leading a motley unit trying to outwit the enemy during the 1860 battle led by Giuseppe Garibaldi that resulted in the unification of Italy .

“The Blunder,” which also stars popular Sicilian comic duo Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone, is produced by Tramp Limited and Bibi Film with Rai Cinema and Medusa, in collaboration with Netflix.

Other titles added at Cannes to the Rai Cinema International Distribution catalog include – as previously announced – “Of Dogs and Men,” the upcoming drama from Israeli director Dani Rosenberg (“The Death of Cinema and My Father Too.. .