Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 53'
A world-wide television broadcast of "Mundialito", the most popular soccer tournament of the year. The tension is sky-high, and the stadium is packed. But, if we take a closer look, we see we are at the suburban soccer field of Cecina Mare. The legendary lineup of the soccer team Scarcerarci F.C. is made up of prisoners and social workers. The grand final has begun. The leading characters intersperse their stories with the more spectacular action on the field, the various portraits dovetail with the game's running commentary. The epic story of a chaotic summer soccer game becomes a trip into the darkness of the world of prisons.
"There are almost 60 thousand prisoners in Italy, in a system that is capable of supporting half that many. Sports and professional preparation are reduced to the bone. Psychotropic drugs are liberally prescribed to keep the bad guys ègood'. Wine and drugs make the rounds with few impediments, completing the daily stupor. Mechanisms for curing true illnesses are perversely slow. The cafeteria meal plans don't take into account religions with eating requirements different from Catholicism. The penitentiary personnel, which is under-staffed, under-paid and unprepared, has basically only custodial duties. Almost always, people come out of prison worse off than when they entered. Could it be that something isn't right?" (Mojito Film).
Biography
film director
Chiara Martina
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Maurizio Ambrosini
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Lorenzo Garzella
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Francesco Andreotti
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Sara Petri
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Giovanna Maina
Mojito Film is a group of people (Maurizio Ambrosini, Francesco Andreotti, Lorenzo Garzella, Giovanna Maina, Chiara Martina, Sara Petri) who met each other at the University of Pisa through the various disciplines of cinema and video-art. They are scholars, students, doctors, DJ's, cameramen, hyperkinetics, braggarts, organizers, experts, ignoramuses, directors, entrepreneurs, sales clerks, politicians, angry, antagonists, integrated, polemic, glunk, meticulous, inconclusive, dancers, arrogant, disorganized, maniacal, documentarians. And apparently there are only six of them. They get together whenever possible.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scarcerarci Football Club (2002).
Cast
& Credits
Italia/Italy, 2002, Betacam, 53', col.
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio: Mojito Film.
Coordinamento progetto: Sara Petri.
Cast: Marcello Bartalucci, Gilberto «Jimmy» Biagi, Tazim Cela, Tonino Curella, Vittorio Porfito, Fabio Terreni.
Production company: Gianluca Arcopinto, Arci Nuova Associazione Toscana, cattedra di Storia e critica del Cinema e insegnamento di Comunicazione audiovisiva dell'Universit` di Pisa, Provincia di Firenze, Provincia di Pisa, C.I.A.O., Datré Media&Media (Lucca).
Italian distribution: Pablo, via Della Robbia 22, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5745004.
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio: Mojito Film.
Coordinamento progetto: Sara Petri.
Cast: Marcello Bartalucci, Gilberto «Jimmy» Biagi, Tazim Cela, Tonino Curella, Vittorio Porfito, Fabio Terreni.
Production company: Gianluca Arcopinto, Arci Nuova Associazione Toscana, cattedra di Storia e critica del Cinema e insegnamento di Comunicazione audiovisiva dell'Universit` di Pisa, Provincia di Firenze, Provincia di Pisa, C.I.A.O., Datré Media&Media (Lucca).
Italian distribution: Pablo, via Della Robbia 22, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5745004.