It Was the Son
A darkly comedic family drama set in Palermo's underworld, where a mafia-adjacent household's absurd preoccupations with a damaged luxury car mask deeper tragedies and moral compromises.
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.
Essence
Ensemble
Toni Servillo
Nicola Ciraulo
Giselda Volodi
Loredana Ciraulo
Alfredo Castro
Busu
Fabrizio Falco
Tancredi Ciraulo
Aurora Quattrocchi
Nonna Rosa
Benedetto Raneli
Nonno Fonzio
Giacomo Civiletti
Un amico di Nicola
Gino Carista
Il prete
Mauro Spitaleri
Avvocato Modica
Piero Misuraca
Masino
Alessia Zammitti
Serenella
Giuseppe Vitale
Amico di Nicola
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