Two Roman families collide when class warfare gets personal — and everyone's claws come out.
This is the story of two completely opposite households: the Pavone are intellectual and bourgeois, the Vismara are proletarian and fascists. They are two tribes sharing the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident brings these two poles together. The madness of a 25-year old youth will set them on a collision course, discovering the cards to reveal that everyone has a secret. People are never what they seem – but we are all predators in the end.
Acting
Castellitto's unhinged Federico steals every scene he's in.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness like a knife.
Direction
Castellitto turns Rome into a pressure cooker of barely contained rage.
Director
Pietro Castellitto
Massimo Popolizio
Pierpaolo Pavone
Manuela Mandracchia
Ludovica Pensa
Giorgio Montanini
Claudio Vismara
Pietro Castellitto
Federico Pavone
Anita Caprioli
Gaia
Marzia Ubaldi
Signora Ines
Liliana Fiorelli
Paola
Claudio Camilli
Carlo Vismara
Orsetta De Rossi
Vittoria Pensa
Rosalina Neri
Nonna Ornella
Renato Marchetti
Saverio
Nando Paone
Nicola Fiorillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pietro Castellitto directed, wrote, and starred in this at age 28 — nepotism accusations flew given his father Sergio Castellitto is a legendary actor-director.
The film sparked real debate in Italy about whether it punches up, down, or sideways at political extremes — some critics called it cowardly centrist, others dangerously cynical.
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