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Lord of the Ants

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 134 mins

Original Title

Il signore delle formiche
  • Director: Gianni Amelio
  • Writer: Gianni Amelio, Federico Fava, Edoardo Petti
  • Producer: Sonia Cilia, Simone Gattoni

CGiii Comment

Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a Fascist-era law criminalizing gay activity. The informant is his partner's father, who forces his son to undergo electroshock conversion therapy.


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Cast & Characters

Giuseppe Aiello
Ermino Amelio
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Valerio Binasco
Emma Bonino
Rita Bosello
Ferruccio Braibanti
Maria Caleffi
Alberto Cracco
Elio Germano
Roberto Infurna
Luca Lazzareschi
Luigi Lo Cascio
Leonardo Maltese
Jacopo Relucenti (as Figurative Actor (1960))
Gina Rovere
Elia Schilton
Sara Serraiocco
Chiara Valerio
Davide Vecchi
Giovanni Visentin
Mateo Zoni
Fabio Zulli