Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 100'
In 1936, during the Italian war in Ethiopia, the incredible true story of an African prince captured and held prisoner in an aviary in the garden of the Fascist Podestà, under the gaze of the inhabitants of a small town in provincial Italy. His name is Abraham Imirrù, but to little Emilio, he is Sandokan. And he will be his hero. In a world where a child's imagination can overturn reality, Emilio finds in the unexpected friendship with the Ethiopian warrior the key to discovering himself.
Biography
film director
Giorgia Farina
(Italy), director and screenwriter with a MFA in Film at the Columbia University, is recognized for her nationally and internationally acclaimed films. From 2013 onwards he has made four features: Amiche da morire, Ho ucciso Napoleone (2015), Guida romantica a posti perduti (2020, selected in Venice Days), and Ho visto un re (2024). She is also committed to promoting film education, with screenwriting and directing workshops to cultivate new talent.
FILMOGRAFIA
Zona rossa (cm, 2007), Alba (cm, 2008), Achille (cm, 2010), The Sounds of Clashing Scabbards (cm, 2012), Amiche da morire (2013), Ho ucciso Napoleone (2015), Guida romantica a posti perduti (2020), Ho visto un re (2024).
Declaration
film director
"I chose to make this film because I found the extraordinary in reality, in a true story that seems almost impossible to believe. Telling it through the eyes of a child allowed me to transform the drama into an adventure and the 'other' into wonder."
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Giorgia Farina. SCREENPLAY: Franco Bernini, Giorgia Farina, Valter Lupo. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Francesco Di Giacomo. EDITING: Paola Freddi, Alessandra Clemente. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Emita Frigato, Alessandra Frigato. COSTUMES: Stefania Grilli. MUSIC: Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi. SOUND: Stefano Civitenga. CAST: Edoardo Pesce, Sara Serraiocco, Marco Fiore, Gabriel Gougsa, Fausto, Blu Yoshimi, Giulio Forges Davanzati, Elisa Di Eusanio, Michelangelo Dalisi, Patrizio Francioni, Lino Musella, Gaetano Bruno. COPRODUCTION: Les Films d’Ici. PRODUCTION: Donatella Palermo for Stemal Entertainment, with Rai Cinema.
