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Acqua Fuori Dal Ring (2012)

Acqua Fuori Dal Ring poster
Original title
Acqua fuori dal ring
Directed by
Joel Stangle
Genre
boxing film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 53m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In Catania, Sicily, the film follows the daily lives of two boxers. One is a local Sicilian and the other is a Tunisian migrant worker. Their stories run side by side as they train and face their separate struggles.

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What happens

Acqua Fuori Dal Ring (English: Ring of Water) is 2012 Italian film written and directed by Joel Stangle, and co-written by Esther Stangle in Arabic and Italian. The film uses a largely Cinéma vérité style, and the director employed non-professional actors and an improvised script, shooting in Catania, Sicily. The film parallels the lives of two boxers living in Catania, one a Sicilian native, and the other a Tunisian migrant worker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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