PRIME LUCI DELL'ALBA
FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN

Production
CAVIAR PRODUZIONE

Year
2000

Director
LUCIO GAUDINO

Cast
GIANMARCO TOGNAZZI
 FRANCESCO GIUFFRIDA
LAURA MORANTE

Color
Y

Type
DRA

Film code
 2347

Sinopsis:

EDO and Saro, two brothers. They meet  on the background of a quiet and sunny Sicilian railway station. Two months before their parents have been shot in an ambush. It is evident that they have not seen each other for sometime. They are no heroes, they are not going to investigate into the umpteenth mafia murder case. It’ll be mostly an occasion to rediscover themselves, different and almost strangers. The apparent self assurance of Edo, the ‘strong’ brother; the one that left to become an esteemed engineer, and the interior darkness of  Saro, confined to a wheel chair, with his dreams and hallucinations. Two faces of the same coin: the difficulty to live in harmony with one’s own roots.

They feel different and strangers, but there is an intimate understanding: somewhere, someplace, the affection and common heritage of two men of different age, surfices with unexpected force.

Awards:
in competition at the Berlin Film Festival 2000