THE ILLUSION

L'ABBAGLIO

By Roberto ANDÒ

RAI CINEMA - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Cinema Italia - Israele 2025
Festa do Cinema Italiano 2025
Panorama
IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025
Limelight
NICE Italian Film Festival Ireland 2025
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Duration
    • 132 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Roberto ANDÒ
    • Producer(s)
    • Rai CINEMA (RAI CINEMA), Tramp LIMITED (TRAMP LIMITED), Angelo & Matilde BARBAGALLO (BIBI FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • 1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began the
      adventure of the “Mille” from Quarto,
      surrounded by the enthusiasm of
      young idealists who had come from all the
      regions of Italy, and with his faithful group
      of officers, among whom one notices a new
      profile, that of the Palermo colonel Vincenzo
      Giordano Orsini. Among the many soldiers
      recruited are two Sicilians, Domenico Tricò,
      a peasant who had emigrated to the North,
      and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. Having
      landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the “Mille”
      began to fight with the Bourbon army,
      whose numerical evident their numerical
      preponderance. Under these conditions, it
      appears almost impossible to breach the
      enemy’s defences and penetrate Palermo.
      But when he is almost forced to retreat,
      Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan. Thus
      begins a chess game played on the edge
      of the of the imponderable, whose final
      outcome will be paradoxical and surprising.