GORBACÍOF – The Cashier who Liked Gambling / Gorbacióf - il cassiere col vizio del gioco (Special Presentation)

By Stefano Incerti
Italy 2010, 87 min.

with Toni Servillo, Salvatore Ruocco, Mi Yang

International Premiere

 

Synopsis: Marino Pacileo, nicknamed Gorbaciof (Gorbachev) on account of a prominent birthmark on his forehead, is the accountant at Naple’s Poggioreale prison.

Shy and soft-spoken, Pacileo has only one passion: gambling. When he finds out that the father of Lila, the young Chinese woman he has fallen in love with, cannot cover a debt incurred at the gaming tables, Pacileo embezzles the money from the prison’s petty cash fund and gives it to the girl.

From that point on, a series of ill-advised wagers, kick-back attempts and armed robberies sends him on a downward spiral from which he never recovers.

 

About Stefano Incerti

Stefano Incerti (born 1965 in Naples) has directed six full-length feature films: Il Verificatore (1995, Kodak Award for a debut film at the Venice Film Festival, David di Donatello for best first-time director , Globo d’Oro and Grolla d’Oro as best director); Prima del tramonto (1999, selected for the Lucerne Film Festicval competition);La vita come viene (2003),L’uomo di vetro (2007, Taormina, Montreal, Goteborg and other major international festivals);  Complici del silenzio (2009);  Gorbaciof (2010, Venice Film Festival, out of competition).

He also contributed to the group film I vesuviani ( 1997, the episode I l diavolo nella bottiglia, in competition at the Venice Film Festival) and directed three medium-length films: L’uomo di carta (1996, Lucerne, Cineaste du present) Ritratti d’autore: Francesco Rosi (1996) and Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera (2003, Venice Film Festival).

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