Country: Italy
Year: 2025
Duration: 14
In a remote neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome, Ponte di Nona, Fabio is a “not-so-young” thirty-year-old, unemployed and bored with life, with a single obsession: garbage. After months spent unsuccessfully reporting the many illegal dumps scattered throughout his area, he has an idea - to pose as a reporter for the famous TV show La talpa ("the mole"). Together with a small crew, he shoots fake investigative reports, becoming the idol and the voice of angry citizens. Is it possible, then, to start a revolution in a city where everything seems immovable?
Biography
film director
Marco Santoro
(Rome, 1986) from 2008 to 2010 worked as an assistant director on films and TV series produced by Taodue. In 2010, he made the documentary Greening the Future for the Shanghai Expo, produced by the Italian Ministry of the Environment. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he collaborated with Marvel Comics as a camera operator and editor. After returning to Italy, he began working in television as a director, creating several programs and a series: Confusi 2 (2024), aired on Raiplay. La talpa is his first short film for the cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
La talpa (cm, 2025)
Declaration
film director
“As for the directorial choices, despite the limited time available due to the small budget, I tried to divide the structure into three main sections, following a principle of coherence with the story and aiming to highlight the characters’ distinctive traits as much as possible. I took inspiration from the famous quote by the well-known Roman gangster Massimo Carminati about Roman society. Carminati spoke of the ‘middle world,’ the ‘upper world,’ and the ‘lower world’ to describe the various layers of Roman society according to their social class. Indeed, in La Talpa, there are characters belonging to each of these categories.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Marco Santoro. CAST: Pietro de Silva, Giuseppe Lo Console, Niccolò Fettarappa, Gianni D’addario, Maria Vittoria Perillo, Fabrizio Ciavoni, Beatrice Lotti. PRODUCTION: Irene Marengo per Indipendent.
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