Malèna is a 2000 Italian-language Comedy Drama movie featuring Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni, Gaetano Aronica and Noam Morgensztern. Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town. Medusa Film in association with Miramax, Pacific Pictures and Tele+. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Harvey Weinstein and Carlo Bernasconi. Malèna is written by Giuseppe Tornatore and Luciano Vincenzoni and it is directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Medusa Distribuzione acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The film has a running time of 109-92 minutes. The film made a box office gross of $14 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Giuseppe Tornatore. Cinematography was done by Lajos Koltai and editing by Massimo Quaglia. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone.