Country: Italy, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 104'
Salvo is a mafia hit man assigned to kill the head of a rival clan. He breaks into his home and discovers that his target has a sister, Rita, who lives as a recluse because she is blind. After murdering his victim, however, he needs to get rid of the girl, who miraculously started seeing again and could now recognize the killer’s face. Overwhelmed by the sudden and inexplicable event, Salvo kidnaps Rita and takes her to a warehouse outside Palermo. Forced to live together, they will discover one another, realizing they are both prisoners of the same world.
Biography
film director
Fabio Grassadonia
Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza are both writers and directors from Palermo. They have worked extensively as screenwriters and as consultants for some Italian production companies, like Filmauro and Fandango. In 2004 they wrote a musical comedy, Ogni volta che te ne vai, directed by Davide Cocchi and set in the world of Romagna’s traditional dance halls. They directed their first film in 2010, the short Rita, which was awarded at the Nastri d’argento and was presented in over a hundred international film festivals. Their first full-length feature, Salvo, won the Grand Prize for la Semaine de la critique and the France 4 Visionary Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rita (cm, 2010), Salvo (2013).
Antonio Piazza
Declaration
film director
“To avoid the drought and the risks of overly conceptual films, we decided to arrange the story within a classical dramaturgic structure, playing with some recognizable genres: noir elements, the love story, the dark comedy of a petty bourgeois couple (the fugitive’s accomplices who become the guardians and wardens of their confined and grotesque world); and there is also some spaghetti western at the end with the epic desert-like landscapes of Sicily’s hinterland."
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
FOTOGRAFIA
Daniele Ciprì
MONTAGGIO
Desideria Rayner
SCENOGRAFIA
Marco Dentici
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Saleh Bakri (Salvo), Sara Serraiocco (Rita), Luigi Lo Cascio (Enzo Puleo), Giuditta Perriera (Mimma Puleo), Mario Pupella (boss), Redouane Behache (picciotto/mafia guy), Jacopo Menicagli (picciotto/mafia guy)
PRODUTTORI
Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca
PRODUZIONEproduction
Acaba Produzioni, Cristaldi Pictures
COPRODUZIONE
Mact Productions, Cité Films, Arte France Cinema
DISTRIBUZIONE
Good Films
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
FOTOGRAFIA
Daniele Ciprì
MONTAGGIO
Desideria Rayner
SCENOGRAFIA
Marco Dentici
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Saleh Bakri (Salvo), Sara Serraiocco (Rita), Luigi Lo Cascio (Enzo Puleo), Giuditta Perriera (Mimma Puleo), Mario Pupella (boss), Redouane Behache (picciotto/mafia guy), Jacopo Menicagli (picciotto/mafia guy)
PRODUTTORI
Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca
PRODUZIONEproduction
Acaba Produzioni, Cristaldi Pictures
COPRODUZIONE
Mact Productions, Cité Films, Arte France Cinema
DISTRIBUZIONE
Good Films
