original title:
L'uomo nero
directed by:
cast:
Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valeria Golino, Anna Falchi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maurizio Micheli, Mariolina De Fano, Vittorio Ciorcalo, Isabella Ragno, Vito Signorile, Pierluigi Corallo, Adelaide Di Bitonto, Annarita del Piano, Nicoletta Carbonara, Guido Giaquinto, Mario Maranzana
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producer:
production:
Bianca Film, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Apulia Film Commission
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country:
Italy
year:
2009
film run:
110'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
04/12/2009
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When Gabriele Rossetti returns to his small town in southern Italy to say goodbye to his dying father, the old man’s last words reawaken a memory from the forgotten past. The father had worked as the local railway station chief, but his thwarted ambition had always been to paint. The resulting mood swings, taken out on Gabriele’s mother and on the peace and quiet of an otherwise tranquil family life, were the only shadows in young Gabriele’s childhood, leading him to seek refuge in his vivid fantasy, as well as in the much less problematic company of a young bachelor uncle who lives with the family and knows how to enjoy himself. But then, in the course of the preparations for the funeral, Gabriele spends a night in the home where he grew up, discovering a truth about his father that he never would have imagined, and which radically alters his view of his eccentric parent.