The Prisoner's Journey
THE FILM
London, 1850. Cliff and James are twin brothers who were separated as children.
At the age of about thirty they have had the same time and the same opportunities in life but ending up into completely different lives.
James became a political rebel, aimed at freeing the people from a tyrant King.
Cliffs became a bounty hunter working for the county sheriff.
With such conflicting paths, destiny couldn’t help but bringing the twins’ life to meet again, sooner or later
Regista: Davide Campagna
Sceneggiatura: Davide Campagna
CAST ARTISTICO
Davide Campagna
In the role of James Henryson and Cliff Henryson
Performed by Davide Campagna, James Henryson isthe main character of this story.
We see everythingfrom his point of view. In almost 30 years he hasbecome a political rebel, trying to free his peoplefrom tyranny. Hero for the people, enemy for therest of the world.
Also performed by Davide Campagna, Cliff Henryson isJames’ twin brother. Same years passed on earth,completely different way of life:
Cliff has grown withhis very Catholic parents, and has became a bountyhunter, who works for the Country Sheriff.
Willem Dafoe
In the role of William the Stranger.
Negotiations are underway to include Willem Dafoe in the role of William the Stranger.
William is just one of many characters we meeton the journey. Just as in life some people are passersby and do notreturn, others determine your fate.
Here, William is someone who digsdestiny
with his own hands..
Pietro Castellitto
In the role of The Sheriff’s deputy.
Ongoing negotiations also for Pietro Castellitto.
The much-hyped and feared sheriff died in a trivial horseback ridingaccident. In his place, we have the young deputyswaggering, proud and arrogant, to represent justice.
He alsorepresents a stop on the way to the death sentence, the lastone.
However, not for pre-expected reasons.
Davide Campagna
Born October 11th 1996 near Naples, in Italy, he hasbeen studying for 6 years at the International CircusAcademy of Verona and then he graduated there inJune 2013.
In 2011 he took part as actor at the opera”Lou Salomè” directed by Luca Ronconi at the FeniceTheatre in Venice. On December 1st 2012 heperformed for the Pope Benedetto XVI with theCircus Academy.
He has been studying ballet for 9years and he has been studying opera singing andpiano at the conservatory. Actor and director since2014, he took part in films such as “The tale of tales”by M. Garrone and “Zoolander 2” by Ben Stiller.
In 2021 he directed the arthouse film “L’equilibrista conla stella” on Amazon Prime Video, a story about acircus in the Shoah. In 2022 he directed the Tv series“Three extraordinary stories” also on Amazon PrimeVideo and Chili Tv.
Davide Campagna
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SYNOPSIS
The film, directed and performed by Davide Campagna, starts from the moment when Cliff arrests his brother James and tells about the journey they have to make, by cart, in order to reach the city, where James will be arrested and sentenced to death.
But journeys are built from the roads you choose to travel, and some roads might lead to a completely unexpected destination.
THE FILM
In the banality of good against evil, we have found ourselves facing with disconnected situations where people decide to settle trivial differences out of the need for a foregone happy ending.
What we propose is a dystopian situation, new and intriguing, where the relationship between two brothers is not only deepened and analyzed in the key of a fantasy world somewhere between ancient and modern, but is also analyzed with a new synergy, such as that of the prey and the hunter.
We could define “tension” as the key narrative of the plot, where time and travel almost become protagonists, above the two brothers around whom the story revolves.
NUN
“Do you know why fingers are often the first things to sufferour sins?
What do you hit when a child misbehaves to teachhim he’s wrong? Fingers. And what was used to be cut whensomeone broke the law? It’s all about fingers.
Fingers arethe real culprits of our actions. Not the head. In France theystill cut the head, because they condamn the thought. But whenwe think something, we are still not guilty until our fingerscarry out the action.”
TRAILER
