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Antonio Petrocelli has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
Sink or Swim
2018
Drama · Comedy
Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Asia Argento
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Dir. Enzo Monteleone · With Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...
Dir. Massimo Gaudioso · With Fabio Volo, Silvio Orlando, Carlo Buccirosso
as Presidente della Repubblica
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
Dir. Giuseppe G. Stasi, Giancarlo Fontana · With Claudio Bisio, Sarah Felberbaum, Pietro Sermonti
