The Ark Of Disperata

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.

• Alessandro ValentiScreenplay
• Mirko LodedoOriginal Music Composer
• Edoardo WinspeareScreenplay
• Edoardo WinspeareDirector
• Edoardo WinspeareWriter
• Alessandro ValentiWriter

• Antonio CarluccioAngiolino 'Rrunza'
• Gustavo CaputoSindaco Filippo Pisanelli
• Celeste CasciaroEufemia Protopapa
• Davide RisoBiagetto
• Claudio GiangrecoPati 'Rrunza'
• Alessandra De LucaValentina
• Francesco FerranteSabino
• Antonio PennarellaCiro a' Bestia
• Tommasina CacciatoreFranca
• Marco Antonio RomanoConsigliere Cazzato
• Salvatore della VillaConsigliere Ricchiuto
• Ippolito ChiarielloConsigliere Zocco