At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca, but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices.
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- Released
- Production
- RAI Cinema, Saietta Film, Apulia Film Commission, RAI
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Top Cast
Antonio Carluccio as Angiolino 'Rrunza'
Gustavo Caputo as Sindaco Filippo Pisanelli
Celeste Casciaro as Eufemia Protopapa
Davide Riso as Biagetto
Claudio Giangreco as Pati 'Rrunza'
Alessandra De Luca as Valentina
Francesco Ferrante as Sabino
Antonio Pennarella as Ciro a' Bestia
Top Crew
Edoardo Winspeare · Director, Writer
Alessandro Valenti · Writer, Screenplay
Mirko Lodedo · Composer
Giorgio Giannoccaro · Cinematographer
Andrea Facchini · Editor
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