Original title Patria

Director Felice Farina

Country, yearItaliana, 2014

Runtime 87

Production Felice Farina, Edoardo Rumolo - Nina Film

Status Pronto


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Documentary

My Country

by Felice Farina
Theatrical Italy
International rights sales
Domestic rights sales
Info

Original title Patria

Director Felice Farina

Country, yearItaliana, 2014

Runtime 87

Production Felice Farina, Edoardo Rumolo - Nina Film

Status Pronto


Pressbook
Cinecittà rights

Cinecittà rights Theatrical Italy, International rights sales, Domestic rights sales

Federica Di Biagio

Theatrical film and documentary distribution

f.dibiagio@cinecitta.it

+39 0672286271

Simona Agnoli

Sales & Business Developement, Films and docs

s.agnoli@cinecitta.it

+39 0672286437

The factory is being shut down and workers are being fired, the umpteenth in the Turin area. Jobs are gone, the identity is gone, certainties are gone. Salvatore Brogna, a worker climbs up the factory tower out of protest or maybe only out of blind rage, threatening to throw himself down. Giorgio, a worker and shop steward whose nature and political beliefs are opposite those of Salvatore, get there to save him from falling. The third one, who is visually impaired and autistic, is a keeper who has been hired as member of a category enjoying special protections and he joins the other two heroically climbing the tower to keep them company.

During the night, abandoned by everybody, desperately waiting for some journalists to arrive, these so different points of view on the world review the last thirty years of life of the Country, the years which led them to climb that dangerous tower. Years of wasted occasions, of betrayed hopes, of crimes and massacres, of sudden reversal of majority in Parliament and power games. We, too, watch those years through the editing of archive footage and, as an opposite to this kind of wicked dance of events, almost to highlight how absurd they are, there is the simple common sense of three people with no power at all, hanging on top of a tower, waiting for somebody, anybody, while they are building a friendship without realizing it.


Festival

Festival di Venezia 2014-Giornate degli Autori-Venice Days: competition


Crew

Screenplay Beba Slijepcevich, Luca D'ascanio, Felice Farina

Script Beba Slijepcevich, Felice Farina

Cinematography Roberto Cimatti

Editing Esmeralda Calabria

Costume design Antonella Balsamo

Set design Nino Formica

Music Valerio c. Faggioni

Ispirato al libro omonimo di Enrico Deaglio – Il Saggiatore, 2008-2010

Interventi in animazione Giuseppe Ragazzini

 


Cast

Salvo Francesco Pannofino

Giorgio Roberto Citran

Luca Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini


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