Top Cast
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Toni Servillo
Gaetano Gargiulo
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Silvio Orlando
Carmine Lagioia
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Fabrizio Ferracane
Franco Coletti
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Salvatore Striano
Cacace
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Roberto De Francesco
Buonocore
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Pietro Giuliano
Fantaccini
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Nicola Sechi
Arzano
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Leonardo Capuano
Sanna
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Antonio Buíl
Bertoni
Overview
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
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