The location chosen by Sardinian director Gianfranco Cabiddu is Asinara when it was still a prison. It is on this semi-uninhabited island to the north-east of Sardinia, characterised by unspoiled and wild vegetation and wild animals surrounded by crystal-clear waters, that a ship sinks with a mediocre group of theatre performers and a handful of dangerous Camorristi on board. The main set for the film lies to the north of the island, on the stretch of coast where the main part of the former prison lies.
The location chosen by Sardinian director Gianfranco Cabiddu is Asinara when it was still a prison. It is on this semi-uninhabited island to the north-east of Sardinia, characterised by unspoiled and wild vegetation and wild animals surrounded by crystal-clear waters, that a ship sinks with a mediocre group of theatre performers and a handful of dangerous Camorristi on board. The main set for the film lies to the north of the island, on the stretch of coast where the main part of the former prison lies.
La stoffa dei sogni tells the vicissitudes of a small acting company who wrecked, together with a group of dangerous members of Camorra, on the shores of an island-prison. On these bases, a real comedy develops, full of turns of events directly insired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and by Eduardo De Filippo’s Art of Comedy.