TAINTED SOULS
by Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini
synopsis
In a corner of the suburbs in a concrete council block on the third floor live Chiara and her husband Marcello, a former bodybuilder with unclear sexual preferences, Francesca, the disabled militant leftist and Bruno, Roma hooligan. Then there is Gianfranco, the drug dealer who tries to mess with the big guys, Eugenio AKA "spinning top", who works in a garage and finds love with the prostitute with whom he lives ... It is in this patchwork of countryside, suburbs and edges of cities that their stories intertwine, joining those of characters who live here by choice, perhaps to rebel or from curiosity. Flaminia married Bruno, disowning her family; the professor, sugar daddy to Marcello. With street language and dialect, we want to construct a tale that erases itself in a swarm of a thousand violent and grotesque stories, the sum of which, in the end, is zero.
international title: | Tainted Souls |
original title: | Il contagio |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | True Colours |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini |
release date: | IT 28/09/2017 |
screenplay: | Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini, Nuccio Siano |
cast: | Vinicio Marchioni, Vincenzo Salemme, Maurizio Tesei, Anna Foglietta, Daniele Parisi, Giulia Bevilacqua, Lucianna De Falco, Michele Botrugno, Alessandra Costanzo, Nuccio Siano |
cinematography by: | Davide Manca |
film editing: | Mario Marrone |
art director: | Laura Boni |
costumes designer: | Francesca Di Giuliano |
producer: | Simone Isola, Paolo Bogna, Francesco Dainotti, Gianluca Arcopinto |
production: | Kimerafilm, RAI Cinema, Gekon Productions, Notorious Pictures Italia |
backing: | MiBACT |
distributor: | Notorious Pictures |