Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 102'
After spending four years behind bars, Tony is allowed out on
day-release and is hired by the cheese producer Cimarosa. He soon
notices the difficult situation of the owners: Alfonso, the son of the
dairyman, has borrowed money and is being blackmailed by the usurers and
the camorra, while Bianca, the niece, who is the true director of the
dairy, feels that the dairy will be closed down soon and looks at the
convict with a mixture of fear and suspicion. Tony tries to stay out of
the problem, but when the usurer starts threatening he can't hold back.
Without anyone knowing, and running the risk of losing his benefits as a
day-release convict, he does what he can to defend the dairy, his friend
and his job.
"The condition of being on day-release is extremely hard because it
is schizophrenic and ambiguous. It is a benefit but at the same time it
is still a punishment (…) You could say that their moral world follows a
different geometry than ours: the curvature and force fields,
empty and full, don't coincide with the ones that are recognized by
society. And yet sometimes men like Tony have much more moral rigor than
honest people" (V. Jalongo).
Biography
film director
Valerio Jalongo
In 1985, Valerio Jalongo graduated in philosophy and directed Il
Volo, an episode of the film Juke-box, that was made in
collaboration with Daniele Luchetti and Carlo Carlei as their graduating
film from the Gaumont School of Cinema. He studied in the USA and
received a Master of Arts in Cinema from the University of Southern
California with Dream City (1988), which won the Premio Vittorio
De Sica, among others. After returning to Italy he taught
cinematographic language at the Istituto Professionale di Stato per il
Cinema a la TV and in 1996 directed his first full-length film,
Messaggi Quasi Segreti (Spaghetti Slow). He then directed
the made for TV film Il Caso Bebawi (1996) and in 1998
collaborated on the screenplay and directing of the miniseries
Torniamo a Casa. At present, he works as a screenwriter and
teaches at the Accademia Internazionale dell'Immagine and at the Roman
prison, Rebibbia.
FILMOGRAFIA
«Juke box» - Il volo (cm, 1985), Dream City (mm,
1988), Messaggi quasi segreti (Spaghetti Slow) (1996),
Il Caso Bebawi (TV, 1996), Torniamo a casa (TV, 1998),
Sulla mia pelle (2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Valerio Jalongo
Soggetto/Story: Enzo Civitareale, Valerio Jalongo, Gualtiero Rosella
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Gualtiero Rosella, Valerio Jalongo, Enzo Civitareale, Diego De Silva
Fotografia/Director of photographyAlessandro Pesci
Scenografia/Set design: Giancarlo Muselli
Costumi/Costumes design: Carolina Olcese
Musica/Music: Paolo Buonvino
Suono/Sound: Fabio Felici
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Ivan Franek (Tony), Vincenzo Peluso (Alfonso), Donatella Finocchiaro (Bianca), Stefano Cassetti (Sauro), Mario Scarpetta (Belmondò), Antonio Pennarella (Durazzo
Produttore/Producer: Rosario Rinaldo
Produzione/Production: Pequod
Soggetto/Story: Enzo Civitareale, Valerio Jalongo, Gualtiero Rosella
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Gualtiero Rosella, Valerio Jalongo, Enzo Civitareale, Diego De Silva
Fotografia/Director of photographyAlessandro Pesci
Scenografia/Set design: Giancarlo Muselli
Costumi/Costumes design: Carolina Olcese
Musica/Music: Paolo Buonvino
Suono/Sound: Fabio Felici
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Ivan Franek (Tony), Vincenzo Peluso (Alfonso), Donatella Finocchiaro (Bianca), Stefano Cassetti (Sauro), Mario Scarpetta (Belmondò), Antonio Pennarella (Durazzo
Produttore/Producer: Rosario Rinaldo
Produzione/Production: Pequod