Feature film

Là-bas. Educazione criminale

 

  • Title: Down there. A criminal education
  • Original Title: Là-bas. Educazione criminale
  • Original Language: French, English, Italian
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2011
  • Runtime: 100’
  • Director: Guido Lombardi
  • Producer: Dario Formisano
  • Production: Eskimo
  • Cinematography: Francesca Amitrano
  • Editor: Beppe Leonetti, Annalisa Forgione
  • Sound recordist: Davide Mastropaolo, Leandro Sorrentino
  • Music: Giordano Corapi
  • Cast: Kader Alassane, Moussa Mone, Ester Elisha, Billy Serigne Faye
  • Coproducers: Gaetano Di Vaio, Gianluca Curti

Synopsis:

Castel Volturno, 30 km from Naples. A Camorra commando breaks into a tailor’s shop managed by African immigrants, wildly shooting and killing six black men. Yssouf, a young immigrant, thus decides to break with his uncle Moses, who after promising him a better future in Italy as an honest artisan turned him into the cynical leader of the local coke-dealing scene. The young Germain, the singer Asetu and the prostitute Suad round out this story blurring fiction and reality, which seems like the pages of a contemporary crime novel on a contemporary man trapped in a daily struggle for survival.