

At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca, but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices.
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Cast
Antonio Carluccio
Angiolino 'Rrunza'
Gustavo Caputo
Sindaco Filippo Pisanelli
Celeste Casciaro
Eufemia Protopapa
Davide Riso
Biagetto
Claudio Giangreco
Pati 'Rrunza'
Alessandra De Luca
Valentina
Francesco Ferrante
Sabino

Antonio Pennarella
Ciro a' Bestia
Tommasina Cacciatore
Franca
Marco Antonio Romano
Consigliere Cazzato
Salvatore della Villa
Consigliere Ricchiuto
Ippolito Chiariello
Consigliere Zocco
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