Director: Donatella Maiorca
Screenplay: Mario Cristiani, Donatella Maiorca, Pina Mandolfo, from the novel Minchia di Re by Giacomo Pilati
Photography: Roberta Allegrini
Music: Gianna Nannini
Cast: Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marco Foschi, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, Corrado Fortuna, Filippo Luna, Alessio Vassallo, Aurora Quattrocchi
Editing: Marco Spoletini
Production: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Giovanna Emidi, Silvia Natili, Giulio Violati, Giovanna Emidi for Italian Dreams Factory, with the support of MiBAC
International Distribution: Intramovies, via Estacchio Manfredi 15, 00187 Roma, tel. +39 06 8077257, fax +39 06 80761566, mail@intramovies.com www.intramovies.com
Year: 2009. Running Time: 105’

 

An imaginary island, a long time ago. A scandal is hidden among the ancient legends and stories of Mediterranean isles, in nineteenth-century Sicily. Angela (Valeria Solarino), the main character, is different from the other girls of her same age. She fears nothing and nobody. She cannot hide her feelings for the young Sara (Isabella Ragonese) and soon her homosexuality is revealed. To survive the scandal, she pretends to be a man and she becomes Angel-O. Just an “O” and the world goes upside down: the chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear. She becomes powerful. Now Angela rules the island. Her body is a lie, her power is true. This is the only thing that really matters. The truth is erased and the falsehood of Angelo, male since his birth, becomes the only self-evident truth. Now it’s appearance, to impose the rules of the game. From the novel Minchia di Re by Giacomo Pilati.