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Completed - ITALIAN, MANDARIN - Drama - 100 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2009 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Andrea SEGRE
Writer(s) : Andrea SEGRE, Marco PETTENELLO, Erri DE LUCA
Cast : Erri DE LUCA, Marco PAOLINI

Producer(s) : Francesco BONSEMBIANTE (Jolefilm), Francesca FEDER (Aeternam Films)

Synopsis

“Shun Li and the Poet” relates the romantic and difficult friendship between a Chinese illegal immigrant and an old Italian fisherman, on an island of the Venetian lagoon facing economic changes.
After working in a textile factory in the suburbs of Rome, Shun Li, a woman in her forties, moves to the small provincial town of Chioggia: she works as a waitress in an “osteria” to pay for her freedom. Bepi, also called “the Poet" by his friends, has been coming to the little bar for years...
The film tells the encounter between two worlds in a crisis: the world of Shun Li who has been forced to abandon her own roots and the world of Bepi who sees his roots transforming deeply because of the social changes of the region.
Both exiled in their own ways, Shun Li and Bepi try to save each other trusting on poetry more than on reality. But their unexpected dreamlike salvation will be hampered by the conflict between the local Italian community and the local Chinese people.

Production

Country(ies) : ITALY

Start of shooting : March 2010

ARGENTINA IFA CINEMA
FRANCE HAUT ET COURT D
HUNGARY VERTIGO MEDIA L
ITALY PARTHENOS S.R.L
JAPAN HATA CINEMA CIN
PORTUGAL Sep 26, 2013 IL SORPASSO
SPAIN FESTIVAL FILMS
TURKEY SIYAH BEYAZ FIL
UNITED KIN CURZON CINEMAS
UNITED KIN CURZON ARTIFICI
UNITED KIN CURZON FILM WOR


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