Il posto dell’anima

Riccardo Milani begins in the cinema as assistant of Mario Monicelli in 1985 and up to 1994 he also works with F. Vancini, A. Monda, D. Luchetti and N. Moretti. It begins in the regal one with Auguri professore, follows of La scuola, directed by D. Luchetti in 1994, bittersweet criticism of the Italian school of end millennium. To 1999 it goes up again the his according to job for the great screen, La guerra degli Antò, while it is being of 2001 his television debut with the TV-movie Il sequestro Soffiantini. It is also director of a big number of advertising spot and short films.

One of the branches of a US multinational tyre manufacturer is shutting down and it is officially announces that all workers will be fired. Most of them come from the same small village in the mountains. Workers refuse to give up, and react by occupying the factory and creating a website. Their case quickly becomes news of the day on local and then national TV .
Personal histories intertwine with the workers’ strife: Antonio dreams of going back to his native village with his girfriend, who works in Milan; Salvatore, a trade union man, has a conflicting relationship with his 18 year-old unemployed son; Mario is looking for an alternative to his factory job, starting with some of the workers’ wives a small business producing fresh pastry.