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Rust (Ruggine)

German title: Ruggine (Rost)
Russian title: Ржавчина
Original title: Ruggine

Alternative titles:
Die toten Kinder

Drama – Italy
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 105 minutes

Director: Daniele Gaglianone
Writer: Daniele Gaglianone, Giaime Alonge, Alessandro Scippa, Stefano Massaron
Cinematograph: Gherardo Gossi
Music: Evandro Fornasier, Walter Magri, Massimo Miride

Movie description:

A group of children, immigrants from the south in the suburbs of a city in northern Italy. A well-esteemed doctor, specialising in pediatrics, a citizen who’s above any suspicion. An encounter in a hot summer, and a childhood trauma that won’t be forgotten. The drama of paedophilia, at the heart of Ruggine.

It’s a hot summer in the 1970s, in the north Italian suburbs of a town inhabited by immigrants from the south and the northeast. Here a kid gang spends its time playing games and clashing with other small gangs. That summer, a new physician arrives in the neighbourhood: the elegant and aristocratic Dr. Boldrini, who inspires awe from everyone. Three decades later, three adults are coming to grips with the daily reality of their lives. The echoes from that violent summer will inexorably invade their apparently normalised lives.

Boy Actors