Director: David Ballerini
Screenplay: David Ballerini
Photography: Lorenzo Adorisio
Music: Giorgio Vacchi, Daniele Lombardi
Cast: Ivan Franek, Marco Baliani, Flavio Bucci, Anna Maria Ghepardi, Pietro Ragusa, Augusto Zucchi
Editing: Alessio Focardi
Production: Esperia Film S.r.l.
International Distribution: Esperia Film S.r.l., Via Amerigo Vespucci 24, 00153 Rome-Italy, tel. +39 06 57283924, fax +39 06 57284364,
e-mail: esperiafilm@mclink.it 
Year: 2004. Running Time: 96’
 
The Silence of Skylark is the story of Bobby Sands, a young Irish poet who lived in the Catholic quarters of Belfast and like many young republicans of that period, the 70's, had contacts with the IRA, the armed element of Sinn Fein. Similarly to others of this group, he was arrested and obliged to confess – with a gun pointed at his forehead – a crime he had not committed. He died in 1981 at the age of 27, following a hunger strike that lasted 66 days, to protest against the conditions of political prisoners in the United Kingdom. The story is that of a modern martyr. It demonstrates that even in the darkest, most extreme conditions of stifled freedom, a man can go on making choices, and thus continue to feel like a human being.