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The Ark of Disperata

The Ark of Disperata

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 2, 2017

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

68%

Original Title

La vita in comune

Director

Edoardo Winspeare

Description

At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca, but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices.