Palazzina LAF

Palazzina LAF (2023)

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.

Date of release
2023-10-21
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (184)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Director
Michele Riondino

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: David di Donatello for Best Actor

Palazzina Laf is a 2023 Italian-French drama film co-written and directed by Michele Riondino in his directorial debut and starring along with Elio Germano. The film is about a spy working for a corrupt company where a factory manager hires him to stalk his colleagues. The film's title acronym stands for "Laminatoio a freddo", which translates to "cold rolling mill". Palazzina Laf refers to the name of a real building of the ILVA steel company in Taranto, a banishment room where demoted employees were confined in inhumane working conditions in the late 1990s.

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