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Released
2016 · FILM

Pericles by Shakespeare on the Road

Runtime
107 min
Drama

Synopsis

The movie is based on the Shakespearean tragedy 'Pericles. Prince of Tyre' and maintains the original language of the text. The story takes place in a green area delimited by highways. A group of immigrants and homeless wake up at dawn. Gower starts the interpretation of the text of Shakespeare, which it will be carried out almost until the end by the same group of people living in this surreal garden of Eden. The story is the dream of the little girl Marina, who lives with his father, Pericles, who is dying, in a post-atomic society. The film is a metaphor of the crisis of the role of the father in Western Society. When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lorenzo LaudaziShot by Roberto QuaglianoScored by Terry Clinton

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