The Vice of Hope

Panorama

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Edoardo De Angelis
  • Italy 2018
  • 93 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Maria walks firmly; her hood up, her time flows along with the river she lives by. A hand-to-mouth life, without dreams or desires, spent taking care of her mother and at the service of a merciless, bejeweled old lady. With her brave-eyed pit-bull, she ferries pregnant women across the river, leading them to a painful, infernal fate.

But hope will pay Maria a visit, in its most ancestral and powerful form, as miraculous as life itself, teaching her that staying human is the greatest of all revolutions.


  • Director Edoardo De Angelis
  • Production Attilio De Razza, Pierpaolo Verga
  • Script Umberto Contarello, Edoardo De Angelis
  • Cinematography Ferran Paredes Rubio
  • Editing Chiara Griziotti
  • Festivals Rome
  • Actors Pina Turco, Massimiliano Rossi, Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio, Marcello Romolo
  • Source True Colours, Rome