Ascanio Celestini

In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty ...

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola’s mother suffered from ...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while ...