THE ASTEROIDS
synopsis
An industrial provincial area, immense and alienating. Once prosperous, the economic crisis has left a heavy mark. Endless fields, abandoned warehouses, this is the universe in which Pietro and his friend Ivan gravitate, 19-year olds in conflict with their families, their schools, with anyone and everything. In the meantime a series of church thefts by the unstoppable “candelabra gang” make the news, along with the threat of a large asteroid soon to pass close to Earth, monitored by the local astronomical station. The asteroid will come so close that Pietro and Ivan's oddball friend Cosmic, obsessed with astronomy and philosophy, is certain it will collide with the Earth and destroy mankind. As the “end of the world” approaches, Ivan convinces Pietro to take part in a theft, with dramatic consequences that will fatally strike their world.
international title: | The Asteroids |
original title: | Gli asteroidi |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | Stray Dogs |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Germano Maccioni |
film run: | 91' |
release date: | IT 1/11/2017 |
screenplay: | Germano Maccioni, Giovanni Galavotti |
cast: | Riccardo Frascari, Nicolas Balotti, Alessandro Tarabelloni, Adriana Barbieri, Pippo Delbono, Chiara Caselli, Lorenzo Ansaloni, Camillo Acanfora, Tatti Sanguineti, Luciano Manzalini |
cinematography by: | Marcello Dapporto |
film editing: | Corrado Iuvara, Paolo Marzoni |
art director: | Nicola Bruschi |
costumes designer: | Loredana Vitale, Valentina Cencetti |
music: | Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari |
producer: | Emanuele Giussani, Ivan Olgiati |
executive producer: | Ivan Olgiati |
production: | Articolture, Ocean Productions, RAI Cinema |
backing: | Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, MiBACT |
distributor: | Istituto Luce Cinecittà |