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About
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.
Theaters
1
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Indigo Film, RAI Cinema, The Apartment Pictures, Srab Films, Le Pacte, Fremantle Italia, MiC, Regione Lazio
Original Language
Italian
Cast
Full credits →V
Valeria Golino
Goliarda Sapienza
M
Matilda De Angelis
Roberta
E
Elodie
Barbara
C
Corrado Fortuna
Angelo
F
Francesco Gheghi
Cameriere bar della stazione
A
Antonio Gerardi
Albert
C
Carolina Rosi
Amica derubata
D
Daphne Scoccia
'James Dean'
F
Francesco Siciliano
Editore
O
Ondina Quadri
Guardia
P
Paola Pace
Pizzi
L
Luisa De Santis
Trasteverina
S
Sylvia De Fanti
Silvia
S
Stefano Dionisi
A
Aura Ghezzi
Carcerata
