see also
original title:
Tatanka
directed by:
cast:
Clemente Russo, Rade Serbedzija, Giorgio Colangeli, Carmine Recano, Raiz, Sascha Zacharias, Damir Todorovic, Luis Molteni, Enzo Casertano, Susanne Wolff, Claudia Ruffo, Lorenzo Scialla, Vincenzo Pane, Luisa Di Natale
screenplay:
Maurizio Braucci, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Massimo Gaudioso, Salvatore Sansone, Stefano Sardo, from the novel "La bellezza e l'inferno" by Roberto Saviano
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producer:
production:
Margherita Film, Minerva Pictures, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura
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country:
Italy
year:
2010
film run:
100'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
06/05/2011
festivals & awards:
The movie deals with the story of Michele, who finds, thanks to boxing, an alternative to a crime life. The boxing represents the metaphor of the salvation. During his journey, from the abyss of Caserta’s outskirts, crossing clandestine rings’ hell in Berlin, Michele becomes a man. Based on extraordinary tale by Roberto Saviano, the director Giuseppe Gagliardi, with a neorealist touch, tells how the Camorra dominates the territory and the lives whose grow up in the South of Italy.