A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Original Title:
L'oratore
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Ahora! Film
Calabria Film Commission
Production Countries:
Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Felice is a twenty-year-old boy from a working-class neighborhood. He buys a grand piano with money from a loan shark and with the help of Noemi, a young girl of the same age he met in the library, he plays in the squares of Campania for passers-by and tourists. The security guard Enzo, after an argument, destroys his piano into many pieces. Chased by loan sharks, he finds himself in the back of a church. He is given a jacket and tie and is sent to the altar in front of the dead man's relatives. He begins to make a speech in commemoration of a deceased person he doesn't even know, but the words flow spontaneously, cleanly, moving and exciting. After that speech he will become the funeral boy, the orator.
"B" Camera Operator:
Diego Silvestri
Assistant Makeup Artist:
Noemy Carrieri
Camera Operator:
Roberto Leone
Casting:
Giovanni Maletta
Director:
Marco Pollini
Director of Photography:
Massimo Moschin
Gaffer:
Matteo Chiarini
Makeup Artist:
Marinella Giorni
Novel:
Marco Pollini
Producer:
Evelyn Bruges
Script Supervisor:
Alberto De Simone
Video Assist Operator:
Isabella Marino
Writer:
Marco Pollini
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