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Cover Boy(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-03-21
53%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
Overview:
The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth. In the background of this rapport between a simple Romanian youth and his marginalized Italian counterpart, there is a West which on one side is still reeling from the collapse of the Communist ideology and on the other, in the clutches of a Capitalist myth which has increasingly assumed, as it propulsive force, harsh competitiveness and an intensification of social inequality.
Languages: Italian, Romanian.
Countries:
Italy,
Romania
ProductionCompanies: 
Filand
Movie: Cover Boy
Top 8 Billed Cast
Chiara Caselli
Laura
Eduard Gabia
Ioan
Susan Lay
Gea
Luca Lionello
Michele
Luciana Littizzetto
Padrona di casa
Gabriel Spahiu
Florin
Francesco Maria Dominedò
Mimmo
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