original title:
Gli immortali
directed by:
cast:
screenplay:
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music:
Bowland
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distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
128'
format:
colour
release date:
20/06/2024
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The idea of the existence of one or more gods, whose purpose is to save the world, becomes stronger whenpeople feel they’re losingcontrol over the events.And yet, Chiara does not believe in God. Even though she is working the lights for a dance-theatre showabout Dionysus, a god who punishes humanity for failing to acknowledge his divine nature.Until one day, her young and charmingfather, Vittorio, bursts into her life affected by a disease that verymuch feels like a form of divine punishment. Chiara is now faced with an ancestral, universal dilemma thatunites human beings from all times and places.It is atruestory, portrayed as a drama that Chiara’s subconscious stages on repeat, like an endless Eucharistthat can only lead to the one answer