Tainted Souls

Sep 28, 2017

1h 45m

★ 5.9

Overview

The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Notorious Pictures

Kimerafilm

RAI

Gekon Productions

MiC

Roma Lazio Film Commission

Tainted Souls Trailers

Cast

Chiara

Anna Foglietta

Marcello

Vinicio Marchioni

Simona

Giulia Bevilacqua

Walter

Vincenzo Salemme

Mauro

Maurizio Tesei

Attilio

Daniele Parisi

Carmine

Nuccio Siano

Lucia

Carmen Giardina

Flaminia

Lucianna De Falco

Bruno

Michele Botrugno

Valeria

Alessandra Costanzo

Richetto

Fabio Gomiero

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