Totò is a hardened ex terrorist who is forced to look into garbage to
live. Once he used to rob banks to fund terrorism, today he recycles
food from trash trucks. In the Arabic night in Lyon, for the first time,
Totò tells his incredible story.
"I approached Totò with the least possible journalistic eye, avoiding
inquiries, pity or judgements. The hoarse tale of his life goes along
its own way, all in one night, until dawn, which smells of rotten fish
and out-of-date chicken legs. He has never been a boss nor an
ideologist. He has never been a murderer nor an intellectual. And this
is how his marginal path, from Sicilian hooligan in working Turin to
member of anarchic-communist terrorism in the Seventies, to ragged
exiled in the Arabic night of Lyon today, it's very difficult for him to
find a place in the post-terrorism galaxy. He is not very nice, he
swears and does a job that stinks. But, looking through the pieces and
the leftovers of the Iron Years, the story of Totò can be very moving"
(G. Votano).
Cast
& Credits
Montaggio/Film editor: Giandomenico Michilin
Produttore/Producer: Cristiano Bortone, Daniele Mazzocca
Produzione/Production: Orisa Produzioni