Top Cast
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Carmelo Giordano
Padre
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Domenico Maiolo
Antonio
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Anna Maria De Luca
Madre
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Giuseppe Vellone
Overview
Antonio is a forty-five-year-old Calabrian charcoal burner who still lives with his father, a gruff and sometimes violent figure. In the background, there's a pervasive sense of job insecurity, highlighting absence as a universal condition
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