original title:
Manco Morto
directed by:
cast:
Antonio Pandolfo, Marco Manera, Stefania Blandeburgo, Cesare Biondolillo, Giuseppe Battiloro, Salvo Cambria, Antonio Balistreri
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:
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…