Petali

Brighton, 1908. Carol is abandoned by her father, who uses the excuse that he is out of tobacco to go out of the house and to sail to France to search for an old girlfriend of his. She keeps going in her sad existence at the side of her old blind mother. They spend their years in the hope that the head of the family will return. Their economic situation is critical. The family falls into the most profound and desolate misery. They are terrorized by the possibility that the pestilential Mr Emmerthon will be arriving from any minute to the next. Both of them experience moments of real anguish. Mr Emmerthon is the landlord. He has rude and brutal ways of collecting the rent. A young doctor is secretly in love with Carol. He ends up being the only bulwark set up against the violence of the feared Mr Emmerthon. Happy ending.

Regia e musica: Michele Di Mauro.
Screenplay: I soggetti.
Director of photography: Bruce Starr.
Art director: Leandro Agostini.
Editor: Juan Carlos Gnocchini.
Sound: Pentaphone.
Cast: Carlo Barbero, Simonetta Benozzo, Marta Columbro, Gennaro De Leo, Laura Righi, Antonio Spadaro, Manuela Tamietti.
Production company: I soggetti, via Praciosa 11, 10024 Moncalieri, Italy, tel. +390112473121, fax +39011850610.