W Wolinski

Overview

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

Top cast

David Riondino

David

Dario Vergassola

Dario

Vauro Senesi

Max

Georges Wolinski

Self (archive footage)

Armando De Razza

Garritoni

Cinzia Carrea

Fanny Dujardin

Altea Chionna

A

Andrea Corallo

M

Maria Vittoria Casarotti Todeschini

T

Tommaso Lazotti

Details