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DIFFERENT PACE

I NOSTRI PASSI DIVERSI

By Alberto BENNATI

ADLER AND ASSOCIATES ENTERTAINMENT INC. - as SALES All rights

Drama - Completed 2022

A mysterious music mogul comes to town with the promise of a music festival featuring superstars of the 60's. He spends two weeks at the public's expense, admired and courted by politicians, gullible locals, and aspiring showgirls before disappearing, leaving the humiliated community wondering why.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Alberto BENNATI
- Writer(s)
- Alberto BENNATI
- Cast
- Ivan FRANEK, Gigi GIUFFRIDA, Viola GRAZIOSI, Tony CAMPANOZZI, Enzo SARCINA, Annarita GRANATIERO, Edoardo ROMANO
- Synopsis
- A down-and-out bizarre man without a leg, gets to Manfredonia, Italy, and claims he is the great event manager Remo Campiotti, who wants to organize a magnificent music festival in the small town, featuring all the Italian music stars of the 60s. With the pretext of making inspections, the faker can thus get into the good graces of an entire city, mesmerized by the dream of music and stars. He lives two weeks at the public expense, admired and courted like a hero. Then he disappears as he arrived, leaving a whole community in turmoil, humiliated and wounded in its pride. In the news, after the scam is discovered, he is depicted as a serial faker: nobody would bet on any of his multiple identities. He did not even steal great amounts of money, so what was his purpose? Fifteen years later in Manfredonia, the local radio station is sold to another owner and all the workers are fired. Among them, Mimi, a 40 years old radio journalist, suddenly finds herself without a job and a lot of time to look around. She gets to know for the first time the story of the man who had the ability and the courage to "invent a life" and to cheat even the Manfredonian institutions; it becomes a sort of fixed idea for her. Mimi wants to reveal the epic story of that man through a survey, to be published online in the local news website. Piece by piece, while Mimi asks the citizens of this bizarre and uncomfortable story of the past, it shows a portrait of a community of people not completely lost, with their weaknesses and fears on the one hand, but also with their generosity, their passion and the overwhelming desire to turn the page which a life-loving trickster, with his quick but intense passage, has somehow unleashed. Moved by curiosity, and helped by her radio colleauge Vincenzo, Mimì will leave for Albania, to really detect all the traces and to find the real origin of that strange man, who gave a wonderful redemption dream to her city and, probably, to Mimì herself.