Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Michele PlacidoMarco Terzi
- Claudio AmendolaPietro Giancona
- Francesco BenignoNatale Sperandeo
- Alessandra Di SanzoMario 'Mery' Libassi
- Tony SperandeoTurris
- Roberto MarianoAntonio Patanè
- Maurizio ProlloClaudio Catalano
- Filippo GenzardiMatteo Mondello
- Giovanni AlamiaMarra
- Alfredo Li BassiCarmelo Vella
Crew
- Marco RisiDirector
- Sandro PetragliaScreenplay
- Stefano RulliScreenplay
- Aurelio GrimaldiNovel
- Mauro MarchettiDirector of Photography
- Giancarlo BigazziOriginal Music Composer
- Claudio Di MauroEditor
- Claudio BoniventoProducer
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