Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 30'
Tina comes from Nigeria and arrives in Italy in search of work. However, there is a Mafia that runs the business of prostitution. At the airport she is bought by an Italian for forty million lire. While working on this nighttime stage that is the street, Tina dreams of going to a disco, but she meets her pimp there too. When she goes shopping in the morning, she also notices that she is being observed. It turns out that, to get away, she ends up at a meeting of politicians who are masons. She frees Italy from corruption, flees the country, and manages to return to Africa.
Biography
film director
Mario Verger
Mario Verger (Rome, 1970) has directed of the animation department of Elio Gagliardo's studio, Corona Cinematografica. He has been one of the most talked-about directors of Italian animation over the last few years. He has made numerous sign-on and sign-off sequences for RAI television programs as well as cult animation movies in the 1990s. His works have been broadcast on television stations around the world.
FILMOGRAFIA
Forever Ambra (cm, 1994), I Remember Moana (cm, 1994), Moana-land (cm, 1995), Tina (cm, 1996), Milingo the Spirit of Africa (cm, 1998), Cacasenno il piccolo grande eroe (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, scenografia e montaggio: Mario Verger.
Music: Shabba Ranks.
Sound: International Recording.
Cast: Mario Verger, Tina Osekheme, Jean-Pierre Kitoga, Teodoro Bontempo, Francesco Rutelli.
Production company: Mario Verger, via Palestro 56, 00185 Roma, tel. +39064454770.
Co-production: RAI 3 Blob Cartoon, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma.
Music: Shabba Ranks.
Sound: International Recording.
Cast: Mario Verger, Tina Osekheme, Jean-Pierre Kitoga, Teodoro Bontempo, Francesco Rutelli.
Production company: Mario Verger, via Palestro 56, 00185 Roma, tel. +39064454770.
Co-production: RAI 3 Blob Cartoon, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma.