COMANDANTE

by Edoardo De Angelis

• Film
• Production year 2023
• Length 120’ min.
• Genre Drammatico
• Release Date 31 October 2023

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Synopsis

At the beginning of the Second World War, Salvatore Todaro is in command, very much in his own way, of the submarine Cappellini of the Italian Royal Navy.

In October 1940, while sailing in the Atlantic, the silhouette of a merchant ship with its lights off looms in the dark of night. This is the Kabalo, which it would be discovered later, was a Belgian ship, but carrying British weapons and munitions and which suddenly opened fire on the submarine and its Italian crew.

A brief but violent battle ensues which ends when Todaro sinks the merchant ship with cannon fire. And it is at this point that the commander reaches a decision that is destined to make history: to rescue the 26 Belgian survivors, who would otherwise have been condemned to drown in the middle of the ocean, and to disembark them at the nearest safe harbour, as required by the law of the sea. To take them all on board, he is forced to sail on the surface for three days, making himself visible to the enemy, risking his own life and those of his men.

When the captain of the Kabalo, disembarking in the bay of Santa Maria in the Azores, asks him why he exposed himself to such a risk by contravening the instructions of his own command, Salvatore Todaro replies with the words that made him a legend: “ Unlike me, those others don’t have 2,000 years on civilisation behind them”.

 

 

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Crew

director  EDOARDO DE ANGELIS 

story  EDOARDO DE ANGELIS 

screenplay SANDRO VERONESI, EDOARDO DE ANGELIS 

photography  FERRAN PAREDES RUBIO 

editing  LORENZO PELUSO

scenography  CARMINE GUARINO 

costumes  MASSIMO CANTINI PARRINI 

music  ROBERT DEL NAJA 

visual effects designer  KEVIN TOD HAUG 

live sound engineer  VALENTINO GIANNÌ

sound designer  MIRKO PERRI 

make up PAOLA GRATTABUSI 

hairstyles MASSIMO GRATTABUSI 

assistant director  LORENZO GRASSO

casting  GABRIELLA GIANNATTASIO, MARCO MATTEO DONAT CATTIN 

general organiser LUCA BITTERLIN 

produced by  INDIGO FILM, O'GROOVE con RAI CINEMA, TRAMP LTD, VGROOVE, WISE PICTURE

in collaboration with  PARAMOUNT + 

in association with  BESIDE PRODUCTIONS, BESIDE TAX SHELTER 

produced by  PIERPAOLO VERGA, NICOLA GIULIANO, ATTILIO DE RAZZA, EDOARDO DE ANGELIS 

associate producer  MARIAGIOVANNA DE ANGELIS, ANTONIO MIYAKAWA

producers IndigoFilm FRANCESCA CIMA, CARLOTTA CALORI, VIOLA PRESTIERI 

associate producer Indigo Film  STEFANO D'AVELLA 

in collaboration with  CINECITTÀ

in collaboration with  MARINA MILITARE 

with the support of  CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME MEDIA DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA

with the support of  REGIONE CAMPANIA, FILM COMMISSION REGIONE CAMPANIA 

with the contribution of  REGIONE PUGLIA, FONDAZIONE APULIA FILM COMMISSION 

with the promotional support of  PUGLIA PROMOZIONE PO FESR PUGLIA 2014/2020

distribuite by  01 DISTRIBUTION

international sales TRUE COLOURS