Les Sept marins de l’Odessa
For five years, the Odessa’s Ukranian captain and seven seamen have been blocked in the port of Naples. The owner, a Soviet-era state enterprise, had gone bankrupt. The crew has lived though cold and hunger thanks to the solidarity from the port’s people or from their families, and has untiringly maintained the vessel in the hope that a buyer would pay their salaries. Yet, history seems to have moved on and condemned this handful of sailors to become the ghosts of another age. Finally, the Napolitan court rules on the sale: the buyer is none other than the “private” version of the former bosses. The Odessa’s men are to be replaced and the ship is to return home.
Bruno Oliviero, né en 1972 à Naples. Assistant réalisateur de théâtre et de cinéma, puis producteur de documentaires et de courts métrages, il enseigne à Milan l’écriture de scénario. Parmi ses réalisations : Isaac a Ponticelli, fiction, 15 mn, 1997 Una vita bella e appassionata, doc., 60 mn, 1998 Latte e Cenere (e la terra gridò), fiction, 12 mn, 1999 La Guerra di Antonietta, doc., 56 mn, 2002
Arte France; Indigo Productions
Point du Jour International; Point du Jour
Catherine Zins; Aurélie Ricard
Marcello Sannino; Emmanuele Cecere
Leonardo Di Costanzo; Bruno Oliviero