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A film by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

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A film by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

With
Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Betti Pedrazzi, Antonia Truppo, with the participation of Tommaso Ragno

French Distribution • International Sales

Releases
World Premiere: Venice IFF - Official Competition

Genre
Mafia, Drama

Synopsis
SICILY, EARLY 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk…

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Producers: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri (Indigo Film)
Co-producers: Paolo del Brocco (Rai Cinema), Alexis Dantec (Les Films du Losange)
France Distribution: Les Films du Losange
International Sales: Les Films du Losange

Participation: Cine+
Support: Canal+, MiC - Direzione generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Regione Lazio
Nationalities: Italy, France

Script: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Cinematographer: Luca Bigazzi
Editing: Paola Freddi
Sound: Stefano Campus, Mirko Perri, Giulio Previ
Production Designer: Gaspare de Pascali
Costumes: Andrea Cavalletto
Music: Colapesce

Duration: 130 minutes
Image Format: Scope
Sound Format: 5.1
Production Year: 2024