CORPO DEI GIORNI

March 2020. In an isolated farmhouse, the life and story of a former far-right terrorist serving a life sentence intertwine with those of other people: a horsebreaker, a father who reunites with his daughters after many years, a crew from another generation, the owner of the farmhouse. As they wait for the lifer to return to prison, they spend a season together, surrounded by cows, vipers, and wolves.

“This movie is both a miscalculation and an attempt to put it to rights. It is a confrontation – with the story of others, with one's own ideals, with the rest of the world. It is a sign of hospitality. These three facets live, with all the others, in Pio's farmhouse. When we got to the farmhouse – an isolated place, where you can see the sea, hear the wolves, and where vipers give birth – it was March 2020. We thought we were going to investigate a particular point of view regarding the social meaning of the first lockdown: an old lifer who was suddenly thrown out of prison, whereas the free people find themselves locked up in their homes. Instead, we experienced Mario's awareness and his violent, inexorable, unrepentant fascism; Nazareno's reunion with his lost daughters; a slow study of Nicola; Pio's unconditional hospitality. Enormous themes, bigger than the physical and narrative limitations of the pandemic.”

DIRECTOR: Santabelva (Henry Albert, Saverio Cappiello, Gianvito Cofano, Nikola Lorenzin). SCREENPLAY: Santabelva, Alessandro Belotti. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikola Lorenzin, Gianvito Cofano. FILM EDITING: Alessandro Belotti. SOUND: Tommaso Barbaro. CAST: Pio Stendardi, Mario Tuti, Nicola Rizzi, Nazzareno Baldi. Raffaella Prosperini, Stefano Stendardi, Marco Stendardi, Emanuele Stendardi, Francesco Saccà, Gianvito Cofano, Henry Albert, Nikola Lorenzin. PRODUCTION: A Small Company.