Manco Morto

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Trailer

original title:

Manco Morto

directed by:

screenplay:

Emma Cecala, Vanessa Leone, Alessandra Trogu

cinematography:

Gero Cordaro

editing:

Antonio Messina

set design:

Giuseppe Cusmano

costume design:

Anna Graziano

music:

Maria Chiara Casà

production:

Arancia Cinema, with the support of Regione Sicilia, Comune di Ciminna

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

15'20"

format:

colour

status:

Ready (06/02/2023)

festivals & awards:

  • Festival Internazionale del Cinema Povero 2023: Concorso Sceneggiature
  • Festival del Cinema Italiano 2023: Stella d'Argento

1958: in a small town in the Sicilian hinterland, the mayoral elections are about to take place. A few days earlier, the Communist Party candidate dies. Between the bewilderment of the companions and the conjectures of the villagers, the religious function is transformed into a theater of the absurd. But the disbelief of the crowd finds its culmination in the last wishes of the deceased…