14/07/2015 - Onda su Onda will be shot in Uruguay and will star the director and Alessandro Gassman. It is produced by Indiana Production and is due to be released in February 2016 by Warner Bros Pictures

Director Rocco Papaleo

Filming has just started for Onda su Onda [+see also:
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Ruggero (Gassman) is a lonely chef and Gegè (Papaleo) is a lively singer, who must get to Montevideo for a concert, an unmissable opportunity for him to get his career back on track. Initially there’s bad blood between the two men, but an unexpected turn of events forces them to become friends. They are welcomed in the Uruguayan capital by a woman, Gilda Mandarino (played by Argentinian actress Luz Cipriota), who is organising the concert. But not everything goes to plan… in Montevideo the lives and destinies of the two men, who are different but share the same common desire to be reborn, become intertwined.

Written by Papaleo with his faithful colleague Valter Lupo and Federica Pontremoli (The Caiman [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)