
W Wolinski
2024-03-16 · 93 min · Not rated
After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.
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- Directors
- Mauro Cappelloni
- Production companies
- Equinox Films Italia
- Countries
- Italy
- Status
- Released
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- USD 325
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David RiondinoDavid
Dario VergassolaDario
Vauro SenesiMax
Georges WolinskiSelf (archive footage)
Armando De RazzaGarritoni
Cinzia CarreaFanny Dujardin
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