Synopsis : Lubo, a nomadic busker, joins the Swiss army in 1939 amid the threat of a German invasion. Learning of his wife's death while defending their children's removal under a national reeducation program, he resolves to reunite with them and seek justice for outsiders like him.
Festival History : La Biennale Di Venezia, 2023 BFI London Film Festival, 2023 Chicago International Film Festival, 2023 Zurich Film Festival, 2023
Awards : Nominated for Golden Lion
Director :
Giorgio Diritti
Producer :
Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Christof Neracher, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli
Screenplay :
Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla
DOP :
Benjamin Maier
Editor :
Paolo Cottignola with Giorgio Diritti
Cast :
Franz Rogowski, Christophe Sermet, Valentina Bellè, Noemi Besedes, Cecilia Steiner, Joel Basman
Giorgio Diritti is a director, screenwriter and film editor born in Bologna. He made his film debut with The Wind Blows round (2005) and has participated in more than 60 national and international festivals, where he has won around 40 awards. The film also garnered a lot of ‘national interest’. In 2013, his film ‘There will come a day’, in which Jasmine Trinca as the main character journeys into the Amazon to indigenous villages in search of the meaning of life. It was entered in the Sundance Film Festival.