original title:
Una storia sbagliata
directed by:
cast:
Isabella Ragonese, Francesco Scianna, Mehdi Dehbi, Stefania Orsola Garello, Nello Mascia, Pietro De Silva, Daniele Pilli, Haydee Borelli, Andrea Bruschi, Roberta Bizzini, Massimiliano Davoli, Maurilio Leto, Yessmine Ouni, Salima Al Wadi, Jazi Abderrazek, Marcello Montalto, Maria Amato
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Pietro Leveratto
producer:
production:
Palomar, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura
world sales:
country:
Italy
year:
2014
film run:
128'
format:
colour
release date:
04/06/2015
festivals & awards:
The Iraqi conflict is towards its end, in the south of the country. This is Stefania’s story, a nurse from Gela, who takes part of a humanitarian mission to help Iraqi children affected by the cleft lip. There, it is very common and incurable. The volunteers are locked in a secured area that it is forbidden to exit, outside the war is dangerous and cruel. But Stefania is set on leaving the area anyway. Khaleed, the Iraqi interpreter she tries to bribe doesn’t want to accompany her. He is scared. She is stubborn and doesn’t give up, and in the end he capitulates. He finds a ploy to avoid security controls, to get her out, past the check point, past the guards and finally surrounded by the people of Nasiriya. She doesn’t say what she is looking for and he tries not to ask her too many questions, that was the deal: no questions asked. Stefania looks at this war-torn country, the desert, the barefoot children, the carcasses of cars and armored vehicles, and thinks about her own town. She thinks about her sea. About Roberto. She is not just a regular volunteer. She is loaded with rage and one "escape" is not enough for her. What is she looking for?