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NORMALE O SUPER

By Sebastiano PISTRITTO

Drama - Completed 2024

Sicily, 1980. Giorgio and Toni, two boys killed because they are guilty of being in love with each other. Real events, just a little fictionalized.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, LGBT, Biography
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Sebastiano PISTRITTO
- Writer(s)
- Sebastiano PISTRITTO
- Producer(s)
- Emiliano GALIGANI (9 Muse Srl ), Federica MORETTI (9 Muse Srl), Domenico ZAZZARA (9 Muse Srl)
- Synopsis
- Sicily, 1980.
  Giorgio is a really handsome 25-year-old, sporting David Bowie sunglasses and shirts. Giorgio lives for the day and often steals guitars from his father's shop to sell them at Catania’s city market. After yet another theft, he is arrested by the police in the company of a boy younger than him, their mouths stuck in a kiss. Since then, he is branded: a puppo - an homosexual. His father kicks him out of the house and Giorgio finds himself looking for a place to stay.
  Giorgio finds a warm welcome in Toni's family. Toni is fifteen and he's the classic good guy. Good grades in school, polite, shy, silent, few friends and an immense, visceral passion for cinema. Toni works with his father, Orazio, at the local playground. In the back of their theater-van they stage some of Toni's favorite films through the work of traditional Sicilian puppets.
  In exchange for a bed and two meals a day, Giorgio agrees to work as a musician in the shows of Toni and Orazio. The two boys become inseparable. Together with Nina, owner of the town’s arcade, they face personal growth through both small and big adventures: the games of table football in the games room, the evenings at the disco, the songs of Loredana Bertè sung at the top of their lungs in the car, the football kicks in the little park near the house, movies at the cinema. And it is precisely with a film, A Special Day, that Giorgio confesses his homosexuality to Toni. And Toni, instead of running or pushing him away, squeezes Giorgio's hand in his. And their friendship becomes love.
  Their love is kept hidden until Toni's grandfather, Franco, who is Catholic, strict, and local godfather, accustomed to talking only when needed, with a big belly and braces to hold it up, discovers them together in bed. Franco's men almost beat Giorgio to death, ordering him to leave and never return.
  Yet, Giorgio and Toni, like the great lovers and heroes in the movies they’ve been watching, decide to continue dating and return to the town ready for the moment of truth: on the evening of the celebrations for the patron saint, during the holy mass, they break into the main square, in front of the church, holding hands. Under the eyes of all, they hug each other and kiss shamelessly. This manifestation of love, heralded in front of the whole town as if it were normal, is too great a dishonor for grandfather Franco and the entire community to bear. With a nod of the head, the elderly man tells his men to intervene.
  On a tragic evening, Giorgio and Toni find themselves bound and gagged, in front of their executioners. In a short time, there is nothing left of them but their lifeless bodies wrapped in a last embrace.
  Taking responsibility for the crime is the young Francesco, thirteen - a confessed criminal.
  The mystery surrounding Giorgio and Toni's death still survives today.