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Pugni in faccia
Fabio Caramaschi
Italy, France, United Kingdom
2018
95 min
World Premiere
Festival history

Mirco Ricci grew up in a poor neighborhood of Rome, where drug use and violence were the order of the day. When he was six years old, his teacher filmed him at his elementary school. The footage shows a clearly troublesome but disarmingly tough kid dreaming of becoming a boxer.

Fifteen years later, Fabio Caramaschi—his former teacher—picks up where he left off and starts filming again. Mirco has grown into a strong young man, and he’s just getting started with his boxing career. In the years that follow, he fights his way up to become light heavyweight champion, but his hot temper and excessive drinking get him into trouble time and again. Things go better for a while after his girlfriend gives him an ultimatum, but in 2016 he finds himself behind bars.

Scenes from his daily life and boxing matches alternate with footage from earlier years and passages from a letter Mirco wrote to Caramaschi from prison. Although Mirco has a close relationship with him, he still finds it very difficult to escape the world he came from.

Credits
Director
Production
    Sergio Pelone for Trullove Cinema
    Sergio Pelone for Trullove Cinema
Co-production
    Yannick Bernard ,
    Arnaud Borges for Dumdumfilms,
    Anders Palm for Prime AD AB,
    Fabio Caramaschi
    Yannick Bernard ,
    Arnaud Borges for Dumdumfilms,
    Anders Palm for Prime AD AB,
    Fabio Caramaschi
Executive producer
Editing
    Aline Hervé
    Aline Hervé
Sound Design
    Marta Billingsley,
    Fabio Pagotto
    Marta Billingsley,
    Fabio Pagotto
Music
    Marco Messina,
    Sacha Ricci
    Marco Messina,
    Sacha Ricci
World Sales
    True Colours Glorious Films
    True Colours Glorious Films
Screening copy
    Laserfilm
    Laserfilm

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