Maurizio Tesei

1275 a.C. - A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments. Only a young amanuensis will try to free her at any cost. 2011 a.C. - A couple of young teenagers, Cris and Jessy, go missing in the woods while a young woman comes out from the middle of nowhere. During the first investigations, the police find an odd manuscript from a tomb. Today - Leonardo, the Chief inspector of the Police department, is in charge of the investigation of the two teenagers disappearance. He's compelled to leave his video-testimony, because in the light of his last findings, he fears for his own life.

Four robbers take refuge in a warehouse, after a heist gone bad at Twinky Doo's Magic World, a theme park for families. There is no way out and, outside, the Police has surrounded the place. The four have an employee of the park as hostage and the warehouse is filled with fast-food muffins: the siege begins. However, the real threat is not outside.

The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.

永井豪原作のアニメ「鋼鉄ジーグ」は７０年代後半にイタリアでも放映され、大人気を博した。当時の少年少女たちの心に刻まれた日本のヒーローをモチーフに作られたのがこの映画だ。 ひょんなことから超人的な力を得た街のチンピラ エンツォは、行きがかりから助けた娘アレッシアから「ジーク」と呼ばれ慕われていくうちにやがて本当に正義の心に目覚めていくが・・・。

A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democratic Party, which is separated from the market by a concrete wall, built to allow the construction of the subway.

In a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome the crime, drugs and graffiti are pervasive. A large apartment complex seems to be a prison for the inhabitants. Marco returns to the hood after serving time in prison for dealing drugs but he's rejected and abandoned by his wife. His old friends still want him to deal cocaine for them. At first he's reluctant but it seems to be all he knows to do. Faustino, Massimo and Federico are delinquents who hang out together while doing drugs, petty crime, and looking for sex. Sonia is different from the rest because she studies and works all the time but even Sonia won't escape without being a victim. A tragic incident brings the main characters together and leaves behind a trail of fire, blood and violence.