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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
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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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