original title:
Fratella e sorello
directed by:
cast:
Ida Di Benedetto, Rolando Ravello, Claudio Amendola, Laura Betti, Youma Diakite, Maria Monsè
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
producer:
production:
Cosmo Production, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2002
film run:
98'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
03/06/2005
festivals & awards:
An unlikely prison friendship develops between Giocondo, an exponent of the upper-classes with a large personal fortune, and il Serpente (The Snake), a world-wise male stripper. Giocondo is also madly in love with Nonò, a black woman who is also responsible for his descent into crime.
After serving their sentences, Giocondo and Il Serpente find the return to the cynicism and hypocrisy of everyday life hard to take but things take an extreme direction when Nonò meets Cicera, the Snake's girlfriend...