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Diamonds

Diamonds (Diamanti)

Movie · 2024 · 6 people

Ferzan Özpetek wrote the screenplay for Diamonds (Italian title Diamanti) with Carlotta Corradi and Elisa Casseri and directed this Italian comedy-drama of 2024 himself. It follows the solidarity and love lives of women working in a costume workshop, and in Italy it reached the top of the box office early in the year and was reported to set audience records. The film runs about 135 minutes and opened in Turkey on 10 October 2025 as Elmaslar.

The story moves between two periods, the present day and 1970s Rome. Two sisters, Alberta and Gabriella, run a glamorous fashion house in the seventies, with Oscar-winning costume designers among their clients. The women who work there are very different from one another, yet they grow close over time, and plenty of personal drama unfolds within this tight community of seamstresses. The cast includes Luisa Ranieri (Alberta), Jasmine Trinca (Gabriella), Kasia Smutniak (Sofia Volpi) and Elena Sofia Ricci (Elena), alongside Nicole Grimaudo, Vanessa Scalera, Loredana Cannata, Geppi Cucciari, Anna Ferzetti, Aurora Giovinazzo, Paola Minaccioni, Lunetta Savino and Carla Signoris.

Özpetek attended the Istanbul premiere ahead of the Turkish release, and the film reached Turkish cinemas through A90 Pictures with a 13+ rating.

DirectorFerzan Özpetek

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Jasmine Trinca Jasmine Trinca Actor · 45 years old Nicole Grimaudo Nicole Grimaudo Actor · 46 years old Kasia Smutniak Kasia Smutniak Actor · 47 years old Milena Vukotic Milena Vukotic Actor · 91 years old Carmine Recano Carmine Recano Actor · 45 years old Ferzan Özpetek Ferzan Özpetek Film director · 67 years old

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Ferzan Özpetek's Diamonds, released here as Elmaslar, is a heart-warming community story of the old kind. A costume workshop in seventies Rome, a world woven from fabric, colour and needle, and the close bond that grows between very different women: that sense of solidarity recalls the warmth of Yeşilçam's big family films. Özpetek looks at his actresses with real tenderness. There are so many characters, though, that some of their dramas feel left half-sewn. Still, it is as graceful as a carefully tailored dress.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Diamonds is one of the rare films that puts women's work at its centre. The world of women working in a 1970s Roman fashion house, whose clients include Oscar-winning costume designers, is the story of a craft and of the unseen workers behind it. By setting the present beside the seventies, the film suggests that the solidarity women build at work has lost none of its meaning. Very different women meeting in the same workshop makes you think about how shared labour can soften differences. Personal dramas sometimes crowd out the social view, but its rise to the top of the Italian box office early in the year shows how widely this warm, collective story resonated.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Honestly, Diamonds is not my kind of film. For about two hours and fifteen minutes it is fabric, colour and relationships in a workshop; do not expect chases, real danger or high tension. The large cast's dramas are warm but slow things right down. Cutting between the two time periods adds a bit of movement, and that is about it. Better suited to people who love stories of female solidarity and character drama.

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