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Francesco Campobasso, Luca Capriotti, Marco Cocci

The film is inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today, who happens to be blind. A small village in Tuscany, 1971. Mirco is a bright, live...( read more  read more... )ly 10-year-old, crazy about the movies - especially Westerns and adventure films. His father, an incurable idealist, is a truck driver. One day, while Mirco is playing with an old rifle, the gun accidentally goes off; the boy is shot in the head. He survives, but loses his sight. At that time, Italian law considered blind people hopelessly handicapped, and did not permit them to attend public school. Hence, young Mirco's parents are forced to shut their son up in a "special school for the blind": the David Chiossone Institute in Genoa. In the beginning Mirco does not accept his new condition. But he is feisty and determined. When he finds an old tape recorder and a few used reels and discovers that by cutting and splicing tape he can create little fairy tales made only of sounds, a brand-new world opens up to him. His new adventure is opposed by the religious authorities that run the boarding school, who are convinced that a blind boy is a disabled person who must not be allowed to harbor illusions. But Mirco will not give up. He continues to fight in every way possible, and he slowly involves his classmates, leading them to rediscover their dreams and capacities. Then one night, with the help of the only sighted child - the daughter of the doorkeeper, with whom Mirco shares a tender friendship - he convinces the small group of boys to sneak out of school and go to the cinema down the street. For all of them, the experience is exhilarating. But the consequences are grim. Mirco is expelled. In the meantime, a broader struggle to change society is taking place outside. 1970's political protests are erupting. Students are taking to the streets. During one of his earlier escapades, Mirco had made friends with Ettore, a blind university student with strong political awareness. Hearing that Mirco has been expelled, Ettore pushes the whole city to mobilize. Students and workers protest in front of the Cassone Institute, threatening to shut down the city's blast furnace if Mirco is not re-admitted. As a consequence, the head of the institute is put under investigation. Mirco is finally re-admitted and granted special permission: to change the year-end show. Instead of reciting the usual religious poems, the children put on a performance of their "fairy tale in sound", before an audience of blind-folded, spellbound parents.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Cristiano Bortone

Release Date: March 9, 2007

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  • lanba
    October 22, 2009
    lanba
    a bonite peliculi, griti felichi jajaj
  • MandyDarko
    June 23, 2009
    MandyDarko
    Inspiradora y muy conmovedora.
  • gabbs666
    August 31, 2008
    gabbs666
    Beautiful, touching, those boys taught me a lesson about dreams and anything you want you can got it, even if you're blind!
  • lucianoevangelista
    August 28, 2008
    lucianoevangelista
    Very beautiful movie,about the importance of the sound in the life. A great true story, with an oustanding performance by the boy that plays Mirco.Very good sound editing too.

    But it has a lot of flaws at continuity and in the plot.
  • diogo02000
    July 21, 2008
    diogo02000
    A great lession about superation end a tale about fantasy end imagination
  • soloclaire
    June 23, 2008
    soloclaire
    Wonderfully touching!
  • SheTVM
    March 27, 2008
    SheTVM
    The film is inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today, who happens to be blind. One of the most beautiful films that I ever saw in the cinema. The actors children are amazing. Unhappily didn`t have as many audience an...( read more)d nor enough spreading and advertising . I wish and hope that when to arrive in dvd reaches the importance that it deserves. Don`t lose the chance to see it and don`t forget to increase the sound!

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