Elementary loves / Приключения маленьких итальянцев

RUSSIA – ITALY
2014, 94 MIN.

Director Sergio Basso
Script Sergio Basso, Marianna Cappi with participation of Marina Polla de Luca and Uliana Kovalyova
Camera Francesco di Giacomo
Design Mauro Vanzati, Atsamaz Dzivaev
Music Pivio & Aldo de Scalzi
Cast: Andrei Chernyshov, Christiana Capotondi, Olga Pogodina, Maxim Bychkov, Anna Potebnya, Andrea Pittorino, Rachele Cremona
Producers Uliana Kovalyova, Elisabetta Bruscolini, Roberto Bessi
Production Zori Film, Centro sperimentale di cinematografia production, Sharoncinema Production with support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Russian Cinema Fund, Ministry of Culture of Italy

The film depicts the first flaming signs of love in human life. The characters are all ten years old and attend the same hockey and figure skating club in a small village set among the Italian Alps. The theft of a medal will trigger an adventurous escape to Moscow, where our six main characters will learn the first skirmishes of love and find new fiances.

SERGIO BASSO
Born in 1975. Studied Oriental Languages at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice and the Orient Arts at the La Sapienza University in Rome. He graduated in Film Directing from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Received professional training in Theatre Directing at Jurij Alschitz’s creative workshop and in State Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow. Since then he has directed several fictional shorts and feature length documentaries played and won prizes at festivals such as Locarno, Nyon, Annecy, Torino, Beijing, San Francisco. “Elementary Loves” is his first full-length feature film.