Film

The Ark of Disperata

2017 · 1h 50m · Comedy

IMDb

6.5

At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca, but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices.

Antonio Carluccio

Angiolino 'Rrunza'

Gustavo Caputo

Sindaco Filippo Pisanelli

Celeste Casciaro

Eufemia Protopapa

Davide Riso

Biagetto

Claudio Giangreco

Pati 'Rrunza'

Alessandra De Luca

Valentina

Francesco Ferrante

Sabino

Antonio Pennarella

Ciro a' Bestia

Tommasina Cacciatore

Franca

Marco Antonio Romano

Consigliere Cazzato

Salvatore della Villa

Consigliere Ricchiuto

Ippolito Chiariello

Consigliere Zocco

Fabrizio Saccomanno

Nullafacente I

Fabrizio Pugliese

Nullafacente II

Domenico Mazzotta

Nullafacente III

Giorgio Casciaro

Lillino

• Edoardo WinspeareDirector · Screenplay · Producer · Story · Writer
• Alessandro ValentiScreenplay · Story · Writer
• Gustavo CaputoProducer
• Alessandro ContessaProducer
• Ferdinando CoccoProducer
• Giorgio GiannoccaroDirector of Photography
• Mirko LodedoOriginal Music Composer
• Andrea FacchiniEditor

Release date

September 2, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 50m

Revenue

$78,266

Genres

Comedy