LA LUNGA CORSA

For young Giacinto, prison is like home. It would indeed be more correct to say that prison is his only home, because the little boy has been born in prison and has spent his entire life in prison with his mother. Prison is the place where Giacinto truly breathes and lives, as that’s the place where he has been born, learnt to walk and love. As soon as the prison doors close behind him, the young man feels that life outside the prison walls is not for him. At the first opportunity, he escapes from the outside back to prison, his home, where he can feel safe from the dangerous outside world. But upon reaching adulthood, Giacinto has to make an important decision...

“I was born and raised in a city in Italy which felt like a very small-town. What I recall most about my childhood was the stillness of that place. As a rule, people were born, lived their whole lives and died there; and rarely, if ever, ventured out to experience the larger world. They seemed to content in the security of their habitat, even as I came to think of it as living under lock and key. My inspiration in taking up the story of Hyacinth, who anchored all his whole life in the same place, came from thinking about my own childhood and the place where I grew up.”

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Andrea Magnani. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Iaroslav Pilunskyi. FILM EDITING: Luigi Mearelli. PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Oleksandr Batenev. MUSIC: Fabrizio Mancinelli. SOUND: Anton Brzhestovskyi. CAST: Adriano Tardiolo, Giovanni Calcagno, Nina Naboka, Barbora Bobulova, Aylin Prandi, Stefano Cassetti, Ginaluca Gobbi, Maxim Kostiniun. PRODUCERS: Chiara Barbo, Massimo Di Rocco, Andrea Magnani, Luigi Napoleone. CO-PRODUCERS: Yuliya Chernyavskaya, Oleg Shcherbyna. PRODUCTION: Pilgrim Film, Bartlebyfilm, Fresh Production Group.