Mario is poor, and still lives with his mother. Lucretius, his friend, on the other hand, is very rich. The two men play with sex, until love comes into play in turn…
Mario è povero, e vive ancora con la madre. Lucrezio, suo amico, è invece molto ricco. I due uomini giocano con il sesso, finché l’amore non entra in gioco a sua volta...
“Mario is poor and still lives with his mother. Every day he is confronted with his friend Lucrezio’s affluence. During an outing on the lake, he can’t take it anymore. Witty morality play by the highly prolific Italian duo Germondari and Spagnoli”. (Rotterdam IFF 2010)
"For the originality, irony, alternative and amused vision of the world of sexuality” (Best Shortfilm Award, Bizzarro IFF, Bologna, Italy, 2018)
The video is part of the ‘Tractatus logico-phileroticus’ project.
cast: HANS HISLEITER, WERTHER GERMONDARI, CARMELA SPAGNOLI
screenplay WERTHER GERMONDARI
cinematography GIUSEPPE SCHIFANI
sound ALESSIO COSTANTINO
editing MARIA LAURA SPAGNOLI
art direction, production, direction WERTHER GERMONDARI MARIA LAURA SPAGNOLI
awards:
Best Direction, V Shortini International Film Festival, Augusta, Italy, 2011
Best Short and Augustus Color Prize, 16°Umbria Film Festival, Montone, Italy, 2012
Jury Special Prize, 16°Umbria Film Festival, Montone, Italy, 2012
Best Short, VII Bizzarro Film Festival, Bologna, 2018 ‘Per l’originalità, l’ironia, la visione alternativa e divertita del mondo della sessualità'
screenings: 39th Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2010; 33.Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche, Spain, 2010; Expresión en Corto International Film Festival, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato, Mexico, 2010; 25.Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück, Germany, 2010; Curtocircuito International Short Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2011; Independent Days 11|Filmfest, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011; 27e Festival de Cinéma Européen de Lille, France, 2011; 58th Belgrade Doc and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2011; 14th Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2011; V Shortini International Film Festival, Augusta, Italy, 2011; 35th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany, 2011; 10th International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia, 2011; Sintetitza, Festival Internacional de curtmetratges dels Pirineus, Berga, Spain, 2011; 19th Contravision Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2011, 16°Umbria Film Festival, Montone, Italy, 2012 > INTERVISTA; Busho Film Festival,; Budapest, Hungary, 2012; Witney Film Festival, Great Britain, 2012; 26 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany, 2013; 14th Independent Film Festival KAN FF, Wrocław, Poland, 2013; La Storia in Piazza, Identità Sessuali, Genova, Italy, 2013; Rassegna J.Solinas, 30 Formiche, Roma, Italy, 2013; Imaginaria Film Festival, Conversano, Italy, 2013; VII Bizzarro Film Festival, Bologna, Italy, 2018; Vienna Porn Film Festival, Austria, April 2022.
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