Michele 'Mike' Lo Russo is a young Italian boxer who moved to Hamburg for a professional boxing career. When his German manager decides not to renew his contract, he returns to Trieste, where his older sister Anna lives. Orphaned at an early age, Anna dedicated her life to her brother's success, picturing his triumph in the boxing as the only gateway to a better life, for him as well as herself. Once again Anna comes to Mike's aid, begging his old coach to train him again. Unfortunately fighting engagements aren't coming, and Mike grows impatient. Bargni, a manager he had met in Germany, persuades him to get into the illegal fight club business. Mike hesitates at first, but then is lured in and he gets a taste of a world with no rules, a world that allows pretty much anything, where bets abound and money pours in.
Screenplay: Fulvio Bernasconi, Vincenza Consoli
Cinematography: Filip Zumbrunn
Editing: Milenia Fiedler
Music: Alexander Hacke
Sound: Patrick Becker
Cast: Michele Venitucci, Maya Sansa, Juan Pablo Ogalde, Vilim Matula, Mauro Serio, Claudio Misculin, Angela Giassi
Prizes and selections:
International Film Festival Locarno 2007 (Les Films des Jurys - Best Actor: Michele Venitucci - ex aequo -), Brooklyn International Film Festival 2008 (Certificate for Outstanding Achievement - Best Cinematography), Moscow International Film Festival 200 (Reflections)
Production:
Ventura Film
(Mmeride, T +41 091 646 2021; F +41 091 646 0386; ventura@venturafilm.ch; www.venturafilm.ch)
I.T.C. Movie
(Bologna, T +39 051 548490; F +39 051 495946; info@itcmovie.it; www.itcmovie.it)
Bianca Film
(Rome, T +39 06 3296790; F +39 06 3296791; info@biancafilm.it)
Co-Production:
Rai Cinema
Artè
RTSI-Televisione Svizzera
Distribution:
Itc Movie s.r.l.
(Bologna, T +39 051 548490; F +39 051 495946; info@itcmovie.it; www. itcmovie.it)
World Sales:
Media Luna Entertainment Gmbh & Co. KG
(Cologne, T +49 221 801498-0; F +49 221 801498-21; info@medialuna-entertainment.de; www.medialuna-entertainment.de)
10 Nov, 18.00 - Villa Medici