Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

110 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 9, 1996

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

Follow Your Heart

110 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 9, 1996

Follow Your Heart
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers GMT Productions
Original title Va' dove ti porta il cuore
Directors Cristina Comencini
Writers Susanna Tamaro, Roberta Mazzoni, Cristina Comencini

Cast

Virna Lisi

as Olga

Margherita Buy

as Olga da giovane

Galatea Ranzi

as Ilaria

Massimo Ghini

as Augusto

Tchéky Karyo

as Ernesto

Valentina Chico

as Marta

Lavinia Guglielman

as Marta da bambina

Valeria Sabel

as Elsa Razman /

Luigi Diberti

as padre di Olga

Anna Teresa Rossini

as madre di Olga /