Catalogue

Leonardo Di Costanzo's second feature is a tale of conflict and danger set in present day Naples. Like a modern Antigone, a social worker on the frontline of the daily war against criminal mentality is confronted with a moral choice that can destroy the sense of her work and her life forever.

Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditionallife, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other.

When a controversial story falls apart after the informant backs out, renowned investigative reporter Fabian Groys turns his attention to a toxic waste scandal. Fabian soon suspects that the two stories are connected. Pure coincidence, or is he being manipulated?

They call him "Brat Svet" ("Mr. Light"). He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life, and most of all, lots of laughter.

»Drifting Clouds« is a film about unemployment with a happy ending.

»Lights in the dusk« concludes the trilogy began by the »Drifting Clouds« and the »The Man Without a Past«. Where the trilogy's first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, the theme of »Lights in the dusk« is loneliness.

»The Man without a Past« delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in »Drifting Clouds«.