Cast and credits
Original title / Missione di pace
English title / Mission of peace
Director / Giuseppe Lagi
Screenplay / Umberto Contarello, Filippo Gravino, Francesco Lagi, Marco Pettenello
Cinematography / Arnaldo Catinari
Editing / Danilo Torre
Music / Bugo
Sound / Giuseppe D’Amato, Antonio Giannantonio
Costumes / Antonella Cannarozzi
Art direction / Mauro Vanzati
Cast / Silvio Orlando (captain Sandro Vinciguerra), Francesco Brandi (Giacomo Vinciguerra), Alba Rohrwacher (soldier Maria Pettariello), Filippo Timi (Che Guevara), Antonella Attili (Teresa Vinciguerra), Tommaso Ragno (colonel Cervo), Ivo Ban (Radovan Pavlevic), Mariano Pirrello (Max Airone), Francesco Colella (Vincenzo Tessitore), Aram Kian (Pippo Gravina), Bugo (Quinzio), Stefano Rota (Bartolo)
Producer / Donatella Botti
Production company / Bianca Film in collaboration with Rai Cinema
Format / 35mm, colour, 1:1.85
Runtime / 90’
Synopsis
Captain Vinciguerra leads a handful of soldiers during a mission in the Balkan area to capture a war criminal absconding since the end of the Yugoslav war. Even more surprising, the Captain must head the mission side by side with his worst enemy: his son, an earnest pacifist. Adventurously living together – between bear eaters and games of Risk, out-of-control tanks, revolutionary dreams and a down-in-the-dumps Che Guevara – father and son will face their private war.
Francesco Lagi
Graduated in film direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, he directed a few short films (including Passatempo), videoclips (for artists such as Tiromancino and Bugo) and plays (Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and the Apocalypse of John). He wrote screenplays for cinema and TV. He directed one of the shorts included in the film 4-4-2 Il gioco piu bello del mondo (2006).
30.08 — 09.09