Open Sea
1998, Italian. Directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani.
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Italian
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Cast & crew
- Ferdinando Vicentini OrgnaniDirector
- Claudio AmendolaEdoardo
- Isabella FerrariClara
- Catherine WilkeningAnnick Riffaud
- Liberto RabalManuel
- Rade ŠerbedžijaFrancois Riffaud
- Andreja BlagojevićEdoardo's translator
- Franco TrevisiFranco
- Federico PacificiPietro
- Giovanni VisentinEnrico
- Lello GiulivoPasquale
- Paolo De VitaNostromo
- Giuditta Del VecchioPaola
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1998
- Original title
- Mare largo
- Country
- Italy
- Written by
- Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Lorenzo Favella
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Open Sea runs 90 minutes (1h 30m).
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Open Sea isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1998. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Open Sea?
Open Sea (1998) was directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani and stars Claudio Amendola, Isabella Ferrari, Catherine Wilkening.