“Socialmente Pericolosi” is a 2017 Italian film directed by Fabio Venditti that tells a true and complex story: the friendship between a journalist (Fabio Valente) and a lifer, former Camorra boss Mario Spadoni, who takes him in under house arrest in Rome while receiving medical treatment. The film weaves together the boss’s personal story, his illness, and the journalist’s attempt to help his children by creating a film school in the Spanish Quarters to give them a future, moving between moments of tension and reflections on redemption and organized crime, and is based on the director’s real-life experience.
DIRECTED BY FABIO VENDITTI
YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 RUNNING TIME 90 min TYPE FEATURE FILM GENRE SOCIAL DRAMA COUNTRY ITALY/FRANCE
PRODUCTION MICHELANGELO FILM, UNA VITA TRANQUILLA, RAI CINEMA, BARBARY FILMS
DISTRIBUTION EMERA FILM
RELEASE DATE 6 July 2017
PRESS OFFICE STUDIO ALFA
CAST:
PERFORMERS VINICIO MARCHIONI (FABIO) FORTUNATO CERLINO (MARIO) MICHELA CESCON ELEONORA PACE MASSIMO WERTMULLER ALBERTO GIMIGNANI MASSIMILIANO BUZZANCA EMIDIO LAVELLA SANDRO ARISTA VITTORIA SCHISANO MADDELENA GAS MARCELLO MASI DONATO PLACIDO BLU YOSHIMI
SUBJECT / STORY BY FABIO VENDITTI MARIA TERESA VENDITTI VALENTINA GADDI ALESSANDRA DI PIETRO
SCREENPLAY FABIO VENDITTI MARIA TERESA VENDITTI VALENTINA GADDI ALESSANDRA DI PIETRO INMATES OF THE REBIBBIA PRISON DIRECTED BY ANTONIO TURCO (COLLABORATION)
MUSIC GIAN LUCA NIGRO
EDITING CHIARA VENDITTI
COSTUMES PAOLA BONUCCI
PRODUCTION DESIGN PAOLO IUDICE
CINEMATOGRAPHY BRUNO CASCIO
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS SEBASTIAN MAULUCCI STEFANO MOFFA (NAPLES)