Alter Ego

Switzerland, November 2023
SERIES, Fiction, 6x45min

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directed by
Erik Bernasconi, Robert Ralston Jr.
Written by
Carlotta Balestrieri, Claudia Bellana, Erik Bernasconi, Andrea Valeri
Status
In distribution

During the traditional Carnival celebrations, the dead body of a young girl is found near the small town of Bellinzona, in Southern Switzerland. The officers engaged in the investigation find themselves investigating crimes rooted in a past full of shadows. Under scrutiny will be not only the crimes that bloodstain the town, but also the soul of a community that believes it has nothing to hide.

All’indomani del Giovedì Grasso il cadavere di una ragazza viene rinvenuto vicino alla cittadina di Bellinzona, nella Svizzera italiana. La squadra di agenti impegnata nelle indagini si troverà ad investigare delitti che affondano le radici in un passato pieno di ombre. A essere esaminati non saranno soltanto i crimini che insanguinano la città, ma anche e soprattutto l’animo umano, quello di una comunità che crede di non aver nulla da nascondere.

credits

World Premiere
November 2023
Original Version
Italian,  colour, DCP, 270 min.
Production
Amka Films Productions SA, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
Producer
Olga Lamontanara, Amel Soudani, Michela Pini, Alessandro Marcionni, Walter Bortolotti
directed by
Erik Bernasconi, Robert Ralston Jr.
Written by
Carlotta Balestrieri, Claudia Bellana, Erik Bernasconi, Andrea Valeri
Cinemato­graphy
Pietro Zuercher
Editing
Katja Dringenberg, Samir Samperisi, Laia Prat
Music
Marcel Vaid, Zeno Gabaglio
Production Design
Fabrizio Nicora
Costumes
Bettina Pontiggia
Make up
Assunta Ranieri
Casting
Roberta Corrirossi

Cast

Gian Marco Tognazzi as Leonardo Blum
Matteo Martari as Michele Novak
Maria Anolfo as Laura Tatti
Anna Pieri as Camille Aubry
Luca Di Giovanni as Kurt Lengen
Roberto Citran as Tommaso Gabuzzi
Caterina Shulha as Stella Ferrazzini
Antonio Zavatteri as Pietro Fontana
Leonardo Lidi as Dino Moser
Paola Buratto as Ilaria Blum
Marcos Piacentini as Samuel Donati
Filippo Dini as Bruno Meier
Igor Horvat as Lorenzo Ghisletta
Marco Rivolta as Filippo Rochat
Chiara Merulla as Lucia Meier
Davide Paganini as Paolo Rochat
Bruno Todeschini as Arnoux
Andrea Zogg as Dr. Ulrich
Giorgia Wurth as Lucrezia Fontana
Roberta Fossile as Sara Blum

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Wild Bunch TV

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