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We Were Children

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MA15+ • 100 MIN

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Synopsis


Directed and co-written by Marco Martani, WE WERE CHILDREN is a captivating combination of revenge thriller and coming-of-age tale of lost innocence. In a small town on the Calabrian coast, a peaceful thirty-year-old postman (Francesco Russo) is arrested for threatening a policeman with a knife. At the carabinieri station, he is interrogated and despite his initial silence, the policeman senses a deeper issue. During his interrogation, the postman reluctantly opens up, recounting a traumatic event from twenty years ago that involved a group of his childhood friends. Now in their thirties with life experience and emotional struggles, they live scattered across different parts of Italy. However, when one of them decides to return to their hometown the others follow, and they all reunite to confront their past and deal with the haunting events from their childhood. Loosely based on the theatre monologue ZERO by Massimiliano Bruno, who co-wrote the screenplay with Martani, this neo-noir drama about facing the past is imbued with taut tension and features a stellar ensemble cast.

Awards & Reviews


Buoyed by a cast of young but brilliant actors, who are perfectly in sync.

Cineuropa

NOMINEE Best Film, Rome Film Festival 2023

Director Biography


Born in 1968 in Spoleto, Umbria, Marco Martani is a screenwriter, playwright, director and film critic. A graduate of the Sapienza University of Rome, he began his career as a film critic in the 1980s and is known for writing the screenplays for The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013) and God Willing (IFF15). We Were Children is his third feature.

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Release Date

18th September 2024

Duration

100 MIN

Rating

MA15+

Director

Marco Martani

Cast

Lorenzo Richelmy, Alessio Lapice, Lucrezia Guidone, Francesco Russo, Giancarlo Commare, Romano Reggiani

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Languages

Italian with English subtitles

Country

Italy

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