Screenplay by GIOVANNI DOTA, ANASTASIIA LODKINA, GIULIA MAGDA MARTINEZ, MATTEO VISCONTI
with IRMA VITOVSKA, GIOVANNI CALCAGNO, GIUDITTA VASILE, LORENZO SCALZO, GABRIELE CICIRELLO
An Italian-Ukrainian co-production PEPITO PRODUZIONI - FILM.UA together with RAI CINEMA
The shooting takes place in Lazio, Sicily and Ukraine (Carpathians)
When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and joins her daughter in Italy from the Carpathians, crashing into her house without warning.
But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland.
Then, an unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling not to be eliminated.
The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà ...
At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are...
GIOVANNI DOTA was born in Naples, March 2nd 1989. Raised in a suburb, Ponticelli, he graduates from S. Di Giacomo high school in 2009. He received a Master Degree in Cinema, Photography and Television. After gaining experiences as a runner and assistant director in Campania, he worked on the first and second season of “Gomorra” as production inspector and assistant director. His short film “Fino alla fine” competed at the 33th edition of “Critic’s Week” at Venice Internation Film and took part in more than 50 Festivals, winning 22 awards. In 2019 he graduated in directing at the “Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia” in Rome with the short film “Una cosa mia”, which has been also presented in Venice at the competition “I Love Gai” (Italian Young Authors).
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