Black Souls

The story of three brothers – the sons of shepherds with ties to the ‘Ndrangheta – and their divided souls. Luigi, the youngest, is an international drug dealer. Rocco, Milanese by adoption, is to all appearances a middle-class businessman, thanks to his cousin’s ill-gotten gains. Luciano, the eldest, harbors a pathological fantasy of pre-industrial Calabria and engages in a lonely, melancholy dialogue with the dead. His twenty-year-old son Leo belongs to the lost generation, who have no identity. The only thing Leo has inherited from his ancestors is resentment; for him, the future is a train that has already left the station. In a dimension suspended between the distant past and modern life, the characters are driven towards the archetypes of tragedy.

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Script: Francesco Munzi, Fabrizio Ruggirello, Maurizio Braucci, based on the novel Anime Nere by Gioacchino Criaco

Cinematography: Vladan Radovic

Editing: Cristiano Travaglioli

Sound: Stefano Campus

Music: Giuliano Taviani

Actors: Marco Leonardi (Luigi), Peppino Mazzotta (Rocco), Fabrizio Ferracane (Luciano), Barbora Bobulova (Valeria)

Production: Cinemaundici, ItalyT.+39 2 6707 0665 F. +39 2 6771 1488 mikado@mikado.it www.mikado.it& Babe Films (France) & Rai Cinema (Italy)

Producers: Luigi Musini, Olivia Musini

Costumes: Marina Roberti

Production Design: Luca Servino

Format: DCP Color

Production Country: Italy

Production Year: 2014

Duration: 103

Contact: RAI Cinema, Italycatia.rossi@rai.itwww.videolibrary.raicom.rai.it

Francesco Munzi

Born in Rome in 1969, he graduated in Political Science and in 1998 he obtained a diploma in Directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2004 he released his first feature film, Saimir. The film participated in the 61st Venice IFF, where it received a Special Mention in the debut feature film category. The film was then presented at film festivals all over the world to great critical acclaim. His second feature film, Il resto della notte (2008), was presented at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight category.