14/10/2002 - The Italian director is about to wrap filming his second feature, Vito, morte e miracoli, starring Sergio Rubini and Luigi Lo Cascio, set in Bari and out in March

Lacapagira, Alessandro Piva's directorial debut cost Euros77,000: his new film, Vito, morte e miracoli (working title) is budgeted at Euros2.5million and launches the young director into the mainstream of Italian cinema, especially after he cast two very popular and talented actors like Sergio Rubini and Luigi Lo Cascio. They say they are delighted to finally be making their first film together.
Produced by RaiCinema and Giovanni Veronesi’s Dada, with a screenplay by Piva, his brother Andrea and Salvatore De Mola, the atmosphere and setting are almost identical to Piva’s cult debut, Lacapagira. That film was made in the dialect of the Puglia region of southern Italy and won a David, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and public acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival.
Vito, morte e miracoli was made on location in Bari and is the story of one extraordinary night that two brothers-in-law - one highly respectable, the other less so - pass together. It will be in the can on 2 November and is scheduled for release in March 2003.

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