Blocco 181

Blocco 181Narrative

With
Laura Osma
Alessandro Piavani
Andrea Dodero
Salmo
Alessandro Tedeschi
Alessio Praticò
Juan Cely Delgado
Sergio Andrade Saavedra
Directed by
Giuseppe Capotondi
Matteo Bonifazio
Ciro Visco
Executive Producers
Nils Hartmann
Sonia Rovai
Chiara Cucci
Daniele Gentili
Giuseppe Capotondi
Creative Producers
Salmo
Paolo Vari
About the project

A crime epic on which to organically grow a contemporary love story — call it Romeo & Juliet plus one extra Romeo, or should we say the West Side Story update our “liquid” times needed? In any case, it’s about a big kind of love; so big that it can be shared – as director François Truffaut most notably showed – among three very different people. More or less, this is how Block 181, the first Italian in-house Sky Studios production, was conceived: as a rougunish bet on getting away with an off-kilter crime story and three young leads forming a solid bond — as it were, a “band apart”.

Also, most of the action is set in a previously unseen, in-da-hood side of Milano. And yes, we go back to the less than discreet charm of evil, asking ourselves the questions for which Jorge Luis Borges had the best words: “why do we prefer Hell to Paradise? Don’t we believe in happy endings?”.

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