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1960. Vincenzo is an enterprising and determined young man who, at the age of just eleven, decides to run away from a small village in Basilicata, abandoning his family to take refuge in the capital with his shoemaker brother. Against the backdrop of an Italy in the midst of its economic boom, he begins working in a bar and graduates from elementary school. Everything seems to be going well, but a sad discovery turns his life upside down. Vincenzo seeks further redemption for himself and his brother by opening a business and thus consolidating his social standing in the capital, but always with the regret of not having his family of origin, especially his brother Giovanni, close by. He returns to his hometown as a grown man, to the bedside of his dying father, bringing with him the memories of a child, a man who was a winner for his people, but deeply defeated and a victim of regret for a life lived halfway.
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1960. Vincenzo is an enterprising and determined young man who, at the age of just eleven, decides to run away from a small village in Basilicata, abandoning his family to take refuge in the capital with his shoemaker brother. Against the backdrop of an Italy in the midst of its economic boom, he begins working in a bar and graduates from elementary school. Everything seems to be going well, but a sad discovery turns his life upside down. Vincenzo seeks further redemption for himself and his brother by opening a business and thus consolidating his social standing in the capital, but always with the regret of not having his family of origin, especially his brother Giovanni, close by. He returns to his hometown as a grown man, to the bedside of his dying father, bringing with him the memories of a child, a man who was a winner for his people, but deeply defeated and a victim of regret for a life lived halfway.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Luciano Luminelli, Marco Foti, Luciano Luminelli
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Runtime:95 minutes
Studio:LudoArchEdo48, D&D Productions
Cast
Luciano Luminelli
Director
Gianluca Di Gennaro
Vincenzo Ragazzo
Ciro Esposito
Giovanni
Sebastiano Somma
Pompeo Pompei
Paola Lavini
Innocenza
Gerardo Amato
Vincenzo Adulto
Fabrizio Buompastore
Rocco
Jonis Bashir
Pantera
Chiara Conti
Maria Pompei
Francesco Colangelo
Vincenzo Bambino
Giorgia Palmucci
Mirella
Sara Frattali
Sara
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