Country: Italy, Germany
Year: 2005
Duration: 80
What's
hidden within the walls of the Castle of Volterra? Biggest Renaissance
castle
in Italy, it now houses a top security prison. Most of its inhabitants
come
from the poorest South of Italy. Jailers have the same origins, too.
Prince,
Nicola, Vincenzo, Sabino and Adamo talk about their lives, before and
after
their arrest. Following their origins, the story leads us all the way
to the
South, to meet their families. What links their lives is always poverty
and no
prospect at all. Characters are portrayed together with other prisoners
while
working on an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Three
Penny
Opera. Their final performance mirrors the grief of their
condition: brought
up in a society that has cut them off. For their entire lives.
"Everybody
is equal before the law. But there's nothing more unjust than
that." (M. Kubescha)
Biography
film director
Mirjam Kubescha
Mirjiam
Kubescha (Giessen,
Germany, 1971) studied Art History in
FILMOGRAFIA
Inside the
Boxes (cm, 1997), Sisters
(cm,
1999), Ecce Homo (mm, 2001), Germania (TV,
2003), Balordi (doc.,2005).
TFF
prizes
