Original title: Italian movies
Country: Italy, Russia
Year: 2012
Running time: 99 min.
Format: 35mm
Directed by: Matteo Pellegrini
Screenplay: Matteo Pellegrini, Giovanna Mori, Paolo Rossi
Actors: Aleksei Guskov, Eriq Ebouaney, Anita Kravos, Michele Venitucci, Neil D’souza, Tiziana Catalano, Melanie Guerren and Filippo Timi.
Cinematography by: Umberto Manente
Editing by: Fabrizio Rossetti
Music: Mario Mariani (Ala Bianca publishing)
Production: Indiana Production, Eagle Pictures, Lumiq Studios, in cooperation with SkyCinema, Merenda Film and Edi
Distributed by: Eagle Pictures
Synopsis: A group of emigrants, working as cleaner in night shift at a studio sound stages where italian soap operas are filmed, find one day unlocked one of the doors to rooms where cameras and shooting equipment is stored. And Hindu Dilip stumbles on a great idea: to film his friend’s wedding ceremony as a gift to him. Quite soon this idea becomes the second source of income for the whole shift team of cleaners and changes their lives forever. After many ceremonies and guest nights they decide to use the empty sound stages at night to film the real stories of real people. The TV «soap» during the day and the real life stories at night… A small screw in the huge television machine. But how long will it last?