Two kids stealing wallets until Italy's darkest conspiracy knocks on their door.
In a picturesque hamlet overlooking the sea near Rome, two young men divide their time between petty thefts and football matches. Their crimes have the lightheartedness and exuberance of childhood games, until an unexpected proposal marks a change in their lives, and that of the history of Italy, with the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Direction
Di Martino crams a feature's worth of dread into 14 minutes.
Acting
Fasano and Rulli's chemistry crackles with dangerous tenderness.
Director
Ludovico Di Martino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pasolini's 1975 murder remains officially 'unsolved' in Italian courts, though a 2005 investigation implicated neo-fascists with state connections — this short weaponizes that unresolved trauma.
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