Completed - Biography, Drama - 120 minutes
The film follows the story of the well known Italian painter Antonio Ligabue
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Giorgio DIRITTI Writer(s) : Tania PEDRONI Cast : Elio GERMANO Producer(s) : Carlo DEGLI ESPOSTI (PALOMAR), Nicola SERRA (PALOMAR)
Toni, the son of an emigrant Italian mother, deported back to Italy from Switzerland where he spent his childhood, lived for years in a shack by the river without ever succumbing to loneliness, the cold or hunger.Meeting the sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati was his chance to return to painting, the beginning of a redemption story in which he feels art is the only way to form his identity, a real opportunity to make his name known and loved by the world.“El Tudesc,” as people called him, was a lonely, scrawny, ugly and often mocked and humiliated man. He became an imaginative artist who painted a fantasy world of tigers, gorillas and jaguars on the banks of the Po. Ligabue’s art is a “fairy tale” from which a wealth of diversity emerges and his work over time has proved to be a gift to collective humanity.
Country(ies) : ITALY