original title:
Palazzina Laf
directed by:
cast:
screenplay:
Michele Riondino, Maurizio Braucci, from the book "Fumo sulla città" by Alessandro Leogrande
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
producer:
production:
Palomar, Bravo, BIM Produzione, Paprika Films, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2023
film run:
99'
format:
colour
release date:
30/11/2023
festivals & awards:
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.