| Director: | Alessandro Rak |
|---|---|
| Production: | AntropicA, Sideway Studios, Film i Väst in association with Mad Entertainment with Chi rom e... chi no, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento scienze dell'educazione, ITI Galileo Ferraris Napoli, Rai Cinema |
| Running Time: | 6’ |
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy, Sweden |
| Main Cast: | Antonio De Matteo |
| Screenplay: | Biagio Di Bennardo, Emma Ferulano |
| Editor: | Andrea Scoppetta |
| Music: | Marco Sica |
| Sound: | Andreas Mellkvist |
Cinema
Rukeli
Out of Competition
synopsis
Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power
director's statement
The choice to realise a short film was made by association Chi rom e… chi no, with a group of young Roma and Italian in the international project Tracer about Porrajmos Samudaripen, Holocaust of Roma and Sinti people. We decided to take an individual point of view: the story of the boxer Trollmann to focus on a narration through music and images that would have an emotional, poetic impact and reach the heart of the audience, to create empathetic connection and leverage memory to counter today’s discrimination, Nazi-fascism and anti- Gypsyism.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
AntropicA - Parsifal Reparato
Via Eudo Giulioli, 3
00173 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3470614501
E-mail: antropicafilm@gmail.com
Web: http://www.antropica.org/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/antropica.film - Facebook, https://www.instagram.com/antropica.film/ - Instagram, https://www.linkedin.com/company/antropica - LinkedIn, https://x.com/Antropica_a - X (Twitter)
PRODUCTION 2: Sideways Studios - Samir Arabzadeh, Fredrik Svensson
Tredje Långgatan 13
41303 Göteborg, Sweden
Tel: +46 704877828
E-mail: samir@sideways-studios.com
Web: http://www.sideways-studios.com/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/SidewaysStudiosInc/ - Facebook
PRODUCTION 3:
Film i Väst - Jenny Luukkonen
Åkerssjövägen 6
46153 Trollhättan, Sweden
Tel: +46 520490900
E-mail: jenny.luukkonen@filmivast.se
Web: http://filmivast.com/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/filmivast - Facebook, https://www.instagram.com/filmivast/ - Instagram, https://www.youtube.com/@filmivast – YouTube
PRODUCTION 4:
Mad Entertainment - Luciano Stella, Lorenza Stella, Mariacarolina Terzi, Carlo Stella
Piazza del Gesù nuovo, 33
80134 Napoli, Italia
Tel: +39 08119139000
E-mail: info@madinnaples.com
Web: http://www.madentertainment.it/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/MADMoviesAnimationDocumentaries/ - Facebook
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
Premiere Film - Saverio Pesapane
Via Nazionale, Terza trav., 3
70128 Bari, Italia
Tel: +39 0809146750
E-mail: premierefilminfo@gmail.com
Web: https://www.premierefilm.it/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/premierefilmitaly – Facebook, https://www.instagram.com/premiere_film - Instagram
PRESS OFFICE:
Rossella Grasso - chi rom e chi no
Largo della Cittadinanza Attiva
80144 Napoli, Italia
Tel: + 39 3342888861
E-mail: rossellagras@gmail.com
