Completed - ITALIAN, ROMANIAN - Drama - 97 minutes
Cover-boy is the story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth.In the background of this rapport between a simple Romanian youth and his marginalized Italian counterpart, there is a West which on one side is still reeling from the collapse of the Communist ideology and on the other, in the clutches of a Capitalist myth which has increasingly assumed, as it propulsive force, harsh competitiveness and an intensification of social inequality.The film tells the story of their shared experiences on the fringes of a prosperous city (tormented by their landlady) and it illustrates how the savagery of a daily dog-eat-dog struggle for survival can be opposed by the bonds of genuine friendship. Ioan's encounter with a famous photographer, and his misjudgment of an exploitive sentiment for love, will ultimately bolster his friendship with Michele and guide him to the final destination of his on-going quest.
Year of production : 2007 Director(s) : Carmine AMOROSO Writer(s) : Carmine AMOROSO Cast : Eduard GABIA, Luca LIONELLO, Chiara CASELLI
Country(ies) : ITALY
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