La tentazione di esistere

The Temptation of Existence
La tentazione di esistere

Switzerland, January 2023
FILM, Fiction, 97 min.

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directed by
Fabio Pellegrinelli
Written by
Fabio Pellegrinelli, Andrea Fazioli, Marco Pagani
Status
In distribution
Website
https://roughcat.ch/index/tentazione
IMDb Link
imdb.com

A pensioner with many phobias realises one day that four million francs have been mistakenly deposited into his account. Instead of notifying the bank, he makes an unexpected decision: he withdraws the money and flees on his moped. On his trail, in addition to two Swiss-German gangsters, is Livio Bronner: an unlikely detective hired by the bank to recover the money. In the course of a daring journey punctuated by encounters and bizarre events, the essence of the two characters, both marked, in different ways, by a mocking destiny, will come to light. 

Un pensionato prigioniero di molte fobie, un giorno si accorge che sul suo conto sono stati versati per errore 4 milioni di franchi. Anziché avvisare la banca, prende una decisione inaspettata: preleva i soldi e fugge in sella al suo motorino. Sulle sue tracce, oltre a due malavitosi svizzero-tedeschi, c'è Livio Bronner: un improbabile detective ingaggiato dalla banca per recuperare i soldi. Nel corso di un viaggio rocambolesco punteggiato di incontri e di eventi bizzarri, verrà alla luce l’essenza dei due personaggi, entrambi segnati, in modi diversi, da un destino beffardo. 

credits

World Premiere
January 2023
Original Version
Italian (french/german subtitles),  colour, DCP, 97 min.
ISAN
0000-0006-3764-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
Production
Rough Cat sagl, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
Producer
Nicola Bernasconi
directed by
Fabio Pellegrinelli
Written by
Fabio Pellegrinelli, Andrea Fazioli, Marco Pagani
Cinemato­graphy
Simon Guy Fässler
Editing
Stefano Cravero
Location Sound Mix
Rico Andriolo
Sound Editing
Riccardo Studer
Sound Design
Stefano Grosso
Re-Recording Mix
Riccardo Studer
Music
Victor Hugo Fumagalli
Production Design
Fabrizio Nicora
Special Effects
Eugen Danzinger
Lighting Design
Ernst Brunner
Costumes
Laura Pennisi
Make up
Assunta Ranieri
Casting
Roberta Corrirossi

Cast

Paolo Sassanelli as Elvezio Zoppi
Euridice Axen as Paola Galli
Teco Celio as Guerri
Christoph Gaugler as Peter
Nöldi Forrer as Thomas
Irene Casagrande as Erika Bronner
Luca Lazzareschi as Eugenio Grassi
Alberto Astorri as Joe Milani
Sara Bertelà as Arianna
Tatiana Winteler as Esther
Massimo Mesciulam as Bruno Zoppi
Jasmin Mattei as Alda Cenci
Massimiliano Zampetti as Rauseo
Christina Andrea Rosamilia as Prostituta

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Rough Cat sagl

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Noha Film Distribution
Release date: 25.04.2023

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