original title:
Noi credevamo
directed by:
cast:
Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco, Francesca Inaudi, Guido Caprino, Renato Carpentieri, Ivan Franek, Luca Barbareschi, Anna Bonaiuto, Luca Zingaretti, Toni Servillo, Fiona Shaw, Andrea Bosca, Michele Riondino, Andrea Renzi, Franco Ravera, Roberto De Francesco, Stefano Cassetti, Pietro Manigrasso, Edoardo Natoli, Peppino Mazzotta, Giovanni Calcagno, Pino Calabrese, Luigi Pisani, Rocco Castrocielo
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
producer:
production:
Palomar, Rai Cinema, Les Films d'Ici, Rai Fiction, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2010
film run:
170'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
12/11/2010
festivals & awards:
Following the fierce Bourbon repression of the political movements of 1828 which touched all their families, three young men from the south of Italy decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini’s “Giovane Italia”. Through four separate episodes, each reflecting the hidden pages of the birth of Italian unification, the lives of Domenico, Angelo and Salvatore will be tragically marked by their conspiratorial and revolutionary missions, balanced as they are between moral rigour and murderous impulses, the spirit of sacrifice and fear. In the background, the unknown history of the birth of the country, of implacable conflicts among the founding fathers, of the fracture between the North and the South and of the contorted roots from which will grow the Italy we now live in.