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UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARIES

FIGLI DELLE STELLE

By Lucio PELLEGRINI

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Comedy - Completed 2010

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Lucio PELLEGRINI
- Writer(s)
- Lucio PELLEGRINI, Francesco CENNI, Michele PELLEGRINI
- Cast
- Pierfrancesco FAVINO, Fabio VOLO, Giuseppe BATTISTON, Claudia PANDOLFI, Giorgio TIRABASSI, Paolo SASSANELLI
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-BE56-0000-R-0000-0000-U
- Producer(s)
- Beppe CASCHETTO (ITC Movie), Rita ROGNONI (Pupkin Production), WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT ITALIA
- Synopsis
- A young dockworker from north-eastern Italy, a 30 year-old unemployed professor who makes ends meet by making pizzas, an ex-con just out of jail, a radical-chic revolutionary and an aspiring TV journalist. All of these characters, disillusioned with their lives and passionately opposed to politics, decide to kidnap a politician, to hold him for ransom and to donate the money to the widow of a workman killed in a work accident.
  This hodge-podge group is totally incompetent and blunders the entire mission and instead of kidnapping the politician, capture an unknown under-secretary by mistake.
  Stalked from all sides, incapable of handling ordinary life let alone conceiving the life of an outlaw, conscious of having kidnapped a good person but at the same time hyped-up by the adrenaline, our little group of ad-libbers will find itself at the heart of a difficult mission which will turn out to be impossible.
  Figli delle stelle is about the incongruous cohabitation of a group of absurd kidnappers and an astonished small politician. The authors shed a bittersweet light on their characters, both funny and sentimental, and mix the tones in the story much like the Commedia Umana did. The result is a cross between the best Italian comedy in its kind, “I soliti ignoti” and the surreal comedy of the Coen brothers.