PALAZZINA LAF

Italy – 2023 – Color – 99’

Directed by Michele Riondino | Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci, Michele Riondino | Photography: Claudio Cofrancesco | Editing: Julien Panzarasa | Music: Teho Teardo | Cast: Michele Riondino, Elio Germano, Vanessa Scalera, Domenico Fortunato, Gianni D’Addario, Marina Limosani, Eva Cela | Production: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra, Valerio Palusci

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to track down the workers they want to get rid of, Caterino starts watching his colleagues, looking for various reasons to denounce them. Inspired by real events, the film depicts the first recorded case of workplace bullying in Italy at the deadly Ilva steelworks in Taranto in the late 1990s, and thus the director's powerful debut is a political drama with social implications, in the tradition of Italian cinema, where he places the working class in front of the camera, trying to give it a voice. Awarded by the Association of Italian Critics for the script, direction and acting and with three David Di Donatello Awards (acting and music).

Selective Filmography (as actor): Michele Riondino (1979)

Scattered Cloud (2011)
Drifters (2011)
Bella Addormentata (2012)
Maraviglioso Boccaccio (2015)
Leaving No Trace (2016)
Friends Will Be Friends (2018)
Our Ghosts (2021)