Neapolitan film director Antonio
Canitano and three film crew members are being forcibly
prevented from leaving a hotel in Accra, the capital of the west
African country of Ghana, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The Alisa Da Hotel is holding them against their will
because they allegedly failed to pay a $45,000 bill after
staying there a month and half.
The director and crew are in Accra to make a movie for a
Ghanaian film production company called BarCo Studios, which
belongs to entrepreneur Kobby Bartels.
The hotel rooms were booked by the production company, and
Bartels has reportedly left his car in lieu of payment until the
bill is settled.
The Italian embassy is on the case, the lawyer said.
Canitano directed several episodes of long-running Italian
soap opera A Place in the Sun (Un Posto al Sole), which is set
in Naples.
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