Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
Cast & Crew
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Alessandro Contessa
Producer
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Alessandro Valenti
Screenplay
The Ark of Disperata
Audience Score
1 hr 50 minComedy
At Disperata a small town in Southern Italy the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression In jail he meets Pati a smalltime criminal from his own town Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices
DirectorEdoardo Winspeare
