W Wolinski

W Wolinski

2024 · 93 min · Comedy, Romance, Drama

After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.

Directed by Mauro Cappelloni · Written by Elide Cortesi

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David Riondino David
Dario Vergassola Dario
Vauro Senesi Max
Georges Wolinski Self (archive footage)
Armando De Razza Garritoni
Cinzia Carrea Fanny Dujardin
Altea Chionna
Andrea Corallo
Maria Vittoria Casarotti Todeschini
Tommaso Lazotti

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