original title:
40 secondi
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screenplay:
Vincenzo Alfieri, Giuseppe Stasi, from the eponymous book by Federica Angeli
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country:
Italy
year:
2025
format:
colour
status:
Development/Pre-production (04/06/2025)
A dispute over a simple misunderstanding turns into a brutal beating against Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old man who is murdered in 40 seconds.
Inspired by a true story, the film retraces the 24 hours leading up to the tragic event, in which chance encounters, rivalries and latent tensions intertwine: a journey through the banality of evil that explores human nature and its conditioning.