FIGLI DELLE STELLE

A young dockworker from north-eastern Italy, a 30 year-old unemployed professor who makes ends meet by making pizzas, an ex-con just out of jail, a radical-chic revolutionary and an aspiring TV journalist. All of these characters, disillusioned with their lives and passionately opposed to politics, decide to kidnap a politician, to hold him for ransom and to donate the money to the widow of a workman killed in a work accident.
This hodge-podge group is totally incompetent and blunders the entire mission and instead of kidnapping the politician, capture an unknown under-secretary by mistake.
Stalked from all sides, incapable of handling ordinary life let alone conceiving the life of an outlaw, conscious of having kidnapped a good person but at the same time hyped-up by the adrenaline, our little group of ad-libbers will find itself at the heart of a difficult mission which will turn out to be impossible.
Figli delle stelle is about the incongruous cohabitation of a group of absurd kidnappers and an astonished small politician. The authors shed a bittersweet light on their characters, both funny and sentimental, and mix the tones in the story much like the Commedia Umana did. The result is a cross between the best Italian comedy in its kind, “I soliti ignoti” and the surreal comedy of the Coen brothers.

Lucio Pellegrini

Pier Francesco Favino
Fabio Volo
Claudia Pandolfi
Giuseppe Battiston
Giorgio Tirabassi

Rita Rognoni
Beppe Caschetto

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