U.S. Palmese

U.S. Palmese (2025)

In Palmi, a small town in Calabria, Don Vincenzo, a genial retired farmer, has a crazy idea to revive the local soccer team by organizing a bizarre fundraiser hiring the Italian major league Serie A, soccer player Etienne Morville, a bad-tempered guy but among the strongest in the world. Albeit unwillingly, Morville leaves Milan to move to Palmi and try to save his image. In the small town he will come up against a reality of sincerity, which will lead everyone on an unforgettable experience.

Date of release
2025-03-20
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (88)
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti

Casting

Interesting facts

U.S. Palmese is a 2024 Italian sports comedy film directed by the Manetti Bros. It stars Rocco Papaleo, Blaise Afonso, Giulia Maenza, and Claudia Gerini. It premiered at the 19th Rome Film Festival on 17 October 2024 and received a theatrical release in Italy on 20 March 2025.

Production

The film is set in Palmi, Calabria, the hometown of the Manetti Bros.' mother and where the duo spent their childhood summers. The idea for the film came from a childhood memory of the Manetti Bros.: at an amateur football match, a man joked that if everyone in town pooled their money, they could raise enough funds to buy Diego Maradona for the local team.

Further, the directors wanted to tell a story set in Southern Italy "away from the Gomorrahs". They stated, "The South is always told with a negative rhetoric: crime, negative constraint and even folklore. But we want to tell something else, because sometimes the South self-destructs with a self-destructive story."

As the Manetti Bros. wanted their actors to speak the Palmese dialect, the cast studied the dialect in Palmi in the weeks before filming. Principal photography began on 22 May 2023. Filming took place over eight weeks in Palmi, as well as Paris and Milan. Filming was completed on 11 July 2023.

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