cinematography
Maurizio Calvesi
editing
Esmeralda Calabria
music
Claudio Cimpanelli
sound
Luigi Petrazzuolo
production design
Tonino Zera
costumes
Beatrice Giannini

cast
Eduardo Scarpetta (Massimo)
Beatrice Fiorentini (Daniela)
Antonio Bannò (Rutilio Selci)
Eva Cela (Lorella)
Rosa Diletta Rossi (Aurora)
Pierluigi Gigante
(Diego Sorrentino)
Romano Talevi (Pironte)
Andrea Sartoretti (Angeletti)

productions
Master Five Cinematografica
Life Cinema
with Rai Cinema
producers
Davide Tovi
Giuseppe Manzi
Emanuele Cadeddu
Francesco Cimpanelli
in association with
Armosia

Italian press office
G&P
Gargiulo&Polici Communication
francesca@gargiulopolici.com

Daniela struggles with the traumas of a troubled past, while Massimo conceals unspeakable secrets behind his talent as a pianist, which has earned him the nickname Golden Hands. Their chance meeting at Pachanga on a Lazio beach in winter will change the direction of their lives. Their stolen glances, awkward silences, and attraction to one another will spark a relationship that rekindles hope that they can turn their lives around. While they take refuge in each other, however, the ghosts from the past are waiting to pounce. And when they do, nothing will go the way they expected. An existential noir about guilt and innocence, fate, and a desperate will to live.

2026 Mare mosso
2006 Baciami piccina
1996 Un inverno freddo freddo

“I met the characters in this movie. Not them, obviously, but people a lot like them. I knew Ostia when it was booming, when I was a child, and later, in its decline. Strapping young guys thinking they could be lifeguards, and, years later, ending up running the many beach clubs up and down the shore. Beautiful, uninhibited girls of diverse social extraction who would get lost on the roads of life, as singer Sergio Endrigo put it. All of this humanity, or my memory of it, at least, I put down on paper. Daniela and Massimo are hyper-protective of their own solitudes, both with a traumatic past behind them – but their pasts don’t go away. They’ll have to face the perils that come from without as well as those that pave their own personal paths to redemption and rebirth. Beauty: in the end, it’s the only illusion they pursue without knowing they are. And strangely enough, they seem to be among the few if not the only people who are able to see beauty at all, through layers and layers of lies and the ferocity of the world around them, as it falls apart. An impossible love. Love in the ruins. (Roberto Cimpanelli)

Roberto Cimpanelli, who directed Un inverno freddo freddo (Silver Ribbon for Best Director and a David di Donatello nomination) and next Baciami piccina (Audience Award at the Annecy Film Festival), now brings an existential thriller to the screen, based on his upcoming new novel, Mare mosso (published by Marsilio). In between, Cimpanelli has worn other hats in the film world, as a distributor (Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy, Dirty Dancing; Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and Dances with Wolves (to name just the most famous of them) and a producer (Paolo Virzì’s directorial debut, La bella vita, for one). Recently, Cimpanelli and his son Francesco have co-written and produced La svolta and Finché notte non ci separi, both directed by Riccardo Antonaroli, and he has also produced Labirinti by Giulio Donato.