Director:
Carmine Amoroso
Italy, 2006, 100min
Format: DVD
Italian with English subtitles

Cast: Edward Gabia, Luca Lionello, Chiara Caselli, Luciana Littizzetto

SYNOPSIS
Cover Boy is the story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth. In the background of this rapport between a simple Romanian youth and his marginalized Italian counterpart, there is a West which on one side is still feeling from the collapse of the Communist ideology and on the other, in the clutches of a Capitalistic myth which has increasingly assumed, as it propulsive force, harsh competitiveness and an intensification of social inequality.