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LA MOSSA DEL PINGUINO

LA MOSSA DEL PINGUINO
by Claudio Amendola
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 94'


Bruno is a thirty-year-old man from Rome with a wife and an infant son. But he still hasn’t found his path in life. After his latest failure, which cost him most of his savings, he has an outlandish and bold intuition: he discovers the little-known winter sport of curling and decides to start a team to participate to the selections for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. And so it begins, the march of the Assault Penguins, a rag tag team ready to fight its way through a plethora of obstacles and improbable situations all the way to the podium. Will these underdogs make it?

Biography

film director

Claudio Amendola

Claudio Amendola (Rome, Italy, 1963) is an actor, dubber, producer, and now film director too. He has played parts in many movies throughout his career, including among others Mary Forever by Marco Risi (1988), Ultrà by Ricky Tognazzi (1989), Another Life by Carlo Mazzacurati (1992), which earned Amendola a David di Donatello, The Bodyguards by Ricky Tognazzi (1993), Pasolini, an Italian Crime by Marco Tullio Giordana (1995), Johnny the Partisan by Guido Chiesa (2000), and Caterina in the Big City by Paolo Virzì (2003). He achieved great success in television with the popular TV series I Cesaroni. La Mossa del Pinguino marks his debut behind the camera.

FILMOGRAFIA

La mossa del pinguino (2013).

Declaration

film director

“I immediately sensed the story’s comedic potential, but at the same time I also wanted to touch upon some of its more dramatic chords. The idea was to get the viewers emotionally involved with everything that sport and team spirit represent. But we also wanted to tell the stories of four characters very similar to people in our society.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Claudio Amendola
SOGGETTO
Michele Alberico, Giulio Di Martino, Andrea Natella
SCENEGGIATURA
Claudio Amendola, Edoardo Leo, Michele Alberico, Giulio Di Martino
FOTOGRAFIA
Antonio Grambone
MONTAGGIO
Alessio Doglione
SCENOGRAFIA
Roberto De Angelis
COSTUMI
Antonella Cannarozzi
MUSICA
Giorgio H. Federici
SUONO
Maurizio Miani
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Edoardo Leo (Bruno), Ricky Memphis (Salvatore), Ennio Fantastichini (Ottavio), Antonello Fassari (Neno), Francesca Inaudi (Eva), Sergio Fiorentini (il padre di Salvatore/Salvatore’s father), Rita Savagnone (la direttrice del museo/museum manager), Emanuele Propizio (Fabio)
PRODUTTORI
Guido De Angelis, Nicola De Angelis, Marco De Angelis
PRODUZIONE
DAP Italy
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