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Saint Maradona

Italy
2001, 96min.

Dir./ Script. Marco Ponti, Dir. of Phot. M.Montarsi, Art. Dir. A.Rosso, Music by Motel Connection, Edit. W.Fasano, Prod. R.Buttafarro.
Cast: S.Accorsi, A.Caprioli, L.De Rienzo, M.Tayde.

Andrea is 27, a university graduate. He is full of hope but doesn’t have any real prospects of changing his life. He has two best friends, his flatmate Bart, a lazy but extremely streetwise good-for-nothing, and Lucia, an Italo-Indian girl with a very complicated love life. Andrea’s life proceeds normally until he meets Dolores and they have a passionate affair that convinces Andrea that he can change his life. He realizes that he can become an adult without necessarily losing the adolescent’s love of life.

Festivals and Awards: Chicago International Film Festival (2002), David di Donatello (2002: Best first-time director, Best supporting actor-Libero De Rienzo), Rotterdam International Film Festival (2002), Mar del Plata (2002,Fipresci Prize), Berlinale (2003).