The Referee ( L'arbitro )

The Referee (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: L'arbitro
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Paolo Zucca

Written By:
Paolo Zucca
Barbara Alberti

Actors:
Stefano Accorsi ..... Arbitro Cruciani
Geppi Cucciari ..... Miranda
Jacopo Cullin ..... Matzutzi
Alessio Di Clemente ..... Brai
Marco Messeri ..... Candido
Francesco Pannofino ..... Arbitro Mureno
Grégoire Oestermann ..... Jean Michel
Benito Urgu ..... Prospero
Franco Fais ..... Franco
Quirico Manunza ..... Quirico
Marco Cadau ..... Pietro
Andrés Gioeni ..... Guardalinee Cruciani
Gustavo De Filpo ..... Guardalinee Cruciani

Synopsis:

Paolo Zucca´s debut feature »The Referee« is a comedy set in the world of soccer, interweaving three different stories. Atletico Pabarile is the worst team of the third division, always beaten by the team Montecrastu. When Matzutzi is recruited to Atletico Pabarile upon his return from Argentina, the team suddenly starts winning their matches. With his success, Matzutzi hopes to win the favor of the daughter of the team's blind coach Prospero. In the second part, we meet Cruchiani, a renowned international referee who gets caught red-handed in a scandal, and as a result he is sent into exile as a referee in the third league. The third part follows two cousins who play for Montecrastu, and their involvement in a feud about the death of a sheep, which threatens to escalate into a big fight. Shot in black-and-white and utilizing big spaces, lined faces and dusty fields reminiscent of western legend Sergio Leone, director Zucca has made a humorous take on soccer as a metaphor for life, without shying away from the dark places.

Atletico Pabarile, the lamest team in the Sardinian third league, is humbled, as it is every year, by Montecrastu, the team led by Brai, an arrogant wheeler-dealer who is used to vexing Atletico's peons because he is the biggest landlord in the area. The homecoming of young Matzutzi, who had emigrated, thoroughly shakes up the season, and Atletico Pabarile starts winning one match after another, thanks to the prowess of its new undisputed champion. The film cuts back and forth between the story of the two teams and the rising international career of Cruciani, an ambitious referee at the highest echelons of his profession, as well as the subplot in which two cousins playing for Montecrastu are involved in a feud linked to the archaic codes of sheep breeding. Matzutzi succeeds in winning the heart of Miranda, the daughter of the blind trainer Prospero, while Cruciani gets involved in a corruption scandal which will land him the gutter: he is caught red-handed, in fact, and sentenced to be exiled to the hell of the Sardinian third league.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 March, 2015.

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