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JAILBIRD

By Andrea MAGNANI

ALPE ADRIA CINEMA - TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2022

As the son of two inmates Hyacinth (Adriano Tardiolo) was always more at home in prison than in the outside world, until he took part in a foot race that promised to change his life.

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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Family, Comedy
    • Countries
    • ITALY, UKRAINE
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Andrea MAGNANI
    • Synopsis
    • The name Rosa was being tattooed onto his arm, when his father learned from a prison guard that the child was a boy. So, his mother named him Giacinto (the
      masculine form of Hyacinth), which was still a flower. Head guard Jack taught the young inmate mother how to change a diaper. At his baptism, Hyacinth’s father held a knife to the baby’s throat and hijacked a police van, leaving his wife behind. Moments later, he thanked his son for helping him escape and summarily abandoned the baby in the vehicle. As soon as he could stand, the Hyacinth raced around the women’s prison incessantly. He was small enough to slip between bars before Jack and the guards could keep him from winding up in the cell of the massive and notorious inmate Rocky. They imagined the toddler would be in mortal danger but found her tenderly cradling him. As he was led away, Rocky let him know he could come back any time he liked. Jack became a surrogate father, teaching the boy his first words: red and blue, identifying the keys to lower and higher security cells.
      At school age, Hyacinth is packed off to a local orphanage, where he fights the other boys when they make fun of him, then runs back to the prison. Jack
      explains he cannot stay because prison is only for people who harm others. So, Hyacinth finds a road worker, punches him in the nose and asks to be arrested. Then he learns minors cannot go to jail.
      On his 18th birthday, Hyacinth finds the road worker and punches him again in the nose. This time Jack smooths over the situation and gets Hyacinth a job as a prison guard. Hyacinth breaks the rules on his first shift by running in circles around his night watch cell block, and so is assigned to duty in the chapel, where
      Rocky pays him a visit. She gives him a toy tea set she had bought for him years earlier after their first meeting. When Rocky learns Hyacinth returned to the prison because there is nothing he can do outside, she tells him he can run and should keep running as long as he can.
      Jack invites Hyancith home to dinner to meet his wife and daughter and offers Hyacinth a tablet computer for his birthday, as he falls over drunk, muttering about how he had hoped for a better life.
      Hyacinth shows Rocky how to see the sea on the tablet and gives it to her as a gift. She is severely punished when the tablet is discovered in her cell. Jack
      admonishes Hyacinth for having given it to Rocky. He offers to defer his retirement until he can shape Hyacinth up. But Hyacinth counters that he does
      not want to become like Jack – an inmate like the others.
      Hyacinth sneaks Rocky out of prison after dark to visit the seaside. It ends badly. But before Rocky died, she had signed Hyacinth up for a foot race. Despite
      being in disgrace, he is allowed to run. Jack is confident he has a shot at winning, as does everyone but Hyacinth himself.
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