No-budget satire on the bleak state of Italian film industry & distribution circa late-'80s-to-early-'90s. Mercurio, a down-to-earth, perennially underseen independent filmmaker, tries to get a distribution company to release his latest movie.
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The people behind it
Piero Natoli
Mercurio
Joanna Chatton
Josephin
Carlotta Natoli
Carlotta
Vera Gemma
Paola
Valerio Mastandrea
Valerio
Neri Marcorè
Marco
Claudia Poggiani
Claudia
Mario De Candia
Antonio
Pier Francesco Aiello
Aristide
Elena Cantarone
L'attrice
Bar of Blood
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