ATLAS
synopsis
Allegra is a lively young woman with a passion for high mountain climbing. She decides to travel to Morocco to reach the top of the Atlas, but her trip ends abruptly when a man explodes a bomb in a coffee shop and her three friends die in the attack. Unable to overcome the trauma months later she returns to her city, where the encounter with Arad, a young Muslim refugee, forces her to confront her perception of reality, her fears and heal her profound interior wounds.
international title: | Atlas |
original title: | Atlas |
country: | Switzerland, Belgium, Italy |
sales agent: | Vision Distribution |
year: | 2021 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Niccolò Castelli |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | IT 8/07/2021 |
screenplay: | Niccolò Castelli, Stefano Pasetto |
cast: | Matilda De Angelis, Helmi Dridi, Nicola Perot, Irene Casagrande, Angelo Bison, Anna Manuelli, Neri Marcorè, Kevin Blaser, Anna Ferruzzo, Doro Müggler, Giacomo Bastianelli |
cinematography by: | Pietro Zuercher |
film editing: | Esmeralda Calabria |
art director: | Georg Bringolf |
costumes designer: | Sabine Zappitelli |
producer: | Villi Hermann, Michela Pini |
co-producer: | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Caroline Houben, Alessandro Marcionni, Olivier Rausin |
production: | Imagofilm SA Lugano, Climax Films, Tempesta, RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, SRG SSR |
distributor: | Vision Distribution, Outside The Box |