The First Stone ( La prima pietra )

The First Stone (DVD) (*)

~~$24.99~~ $18.97

Original Title: La prima pietra
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2018 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Rolando Ravello

Written By:
Stefano Di Santi

Rolando Ravello

Actors:
Corrado Guzzanti ..... Preside Ottaviani
Kasia Smutniak ..... Signora Hatab
Serra Yilmaz ..... Fatima Hatab
Valerio Aprea ..... Custode Marcello
Iaia Forte ..... Bidella Loretta
Lucia Mascino ..... Maestra Roversi
Caterina Bertone ..... Segretaria
Lorenzo Ciamei ..... Samir
Gabriele Paolucci ..... Fabrizietto
Michael Christian Puggioni ..... Samuele
Amir el Atqane

Synopsis:

A primary school is busily preparing its Christmas show when the peace is suddenly shattered. Little Samir (Lorenzo Ciamei), desperate to be outside in the playground with the others, throws a stone at a window in a seemingly meaningless act of rebellion, injuring the caretaker Marcello (Valerio Aprea) and his wife Loretta (Iaia Forte), who look after the building. The little boy's Muslim mother (Kasia Smutniak) is immediately summoned, arriving with her obdurate mother-in-law, Fatima (Serra Yilmaz). Neither of the two has any intention of paying for the damage, and when it emerges that Samir has been assigned the role of an ox in the Christmas play, hostility breaks out in the office of the headteacher (played by a manic and very funny Corrado Guzzanti), who makes a well-meaning but hypocritical attempt to calm down the class teacher (Lucia Mascino), a bohemian vegan-type who believes in the power of karma. Despite all the fuss, the headteacher's plan, appropriately enough, had been to turn the traditional and typically religious Christmas play into a delightfully interfaith performance: 'But it begins with a Muslim legend and ends with Hindu poems!' he protests, as an increasingly oppressive situation starts to feel a little like Carnage...

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 March, 2020.