ANNALISA
synopsis
15-year-old Veleno pedals furiously on his bicycle to keep up with his new friends who are different from him: street kids who race each other on their scooters and face off on the soccer field where their team, the Cosmica, plays. Cimasa, Capodiferro, and Natuccio all answer to their leader, Zazà, a genuine soccer talent. The prospects for the small town in the South of Italy – the factory, the pollution, the drugs, and the offensive demagoguery of the local politico and rising star Vito Cicerone – are not bright. But the boys’ lives take an unexpected turn when a strange stray ‘madonna’, the lovely Annalisa literally flies into their midst from the top of a church, dressed as a bride. Smitten, Zazà and Veleno awkwardly approach her and experience pure ecstasy.
international title: | Annalisa |
original title: | Il paese delle spose infelici |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | Fandango |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Pippo Mezzapesa |
film run: | 82' |
release date: | IT 11/08/2011, FR 01/08/2012 |
screenplay: | Antonio Leotti, Antonella Gaeta, Pippo Mezzapesa |
cast: | Aylin Prandi, Antonio Gerardi, Rolando Ravello, Valentina Carnelutti, Nicola Rignanese, Teresa Saponangelo, Michele D'Attanasio, Nicholas Orzella, Luca Schipani, Cosimo Villani |
film editing: | Giogiò Franchini |
art director: | Sabrina Balestra |
costumes designer: | Francesca Vecchi |
music: | Pasquale Catalano |
producer: | Domenico Procacci |
production: | Fandango, RAI Cinema |
backing: | MiBAC - Direzione Cinema, Apulia Film Commission |
distributor: | Fandango Distribuzione, Bellissima Films |