Totò is a forty-something, up-and-coming boss in the organized crime world of Naples. Rosetta is a nine-year-old girl attending the last year of primary school. One morning Totò is shot in the head. At the very same moment, Rosetta falls off a swing and hits her head. The child and the boss both have surgery. However, on awakening they are both changed: Totò the gangster has woken in Rosetta’s body, Rosetta in Totò’s. A kind, ballet-loving child in the body of a gangster, a gangster in that of a little girl.
Andrea Porporati directs a modern fairy tale with comic overtones which begins with the identity switch between the gangster Totò (Salvatore Esposito) and the child Rosetta (Fabiana Martucci). Much of the action takes place in the city centre of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), in particular lungomare and piazza Unità d'Italia, with mount Vesuvius often present in the background.
Scenes were also shot in the centre of Ercolano and near elegant, historic Villa Campolieto, which served as the gangster’s abode, featuring frescoes, four-poster beds and a tiger as a pet. Locations also included several places in Vico Equense (Naples) and Rome.
Totò is a forty-something, up-and-coming boss in the organized crime world of Naples. Rosetta is a nine-year-old girl attending the last year of primary school. One morning Totò is shot in the head. At the very same moment, Rosetta falls off a swing and hits her head. The child and the boss both have surgery. However, on awakening they are both changed: Totò the gangster has woken in Rosetta’s body, Rosetta in Totò’s. A kind, ballet-loving child in the body of a gangster, a gangster in that of a little girl.
Andrea Porporati directs a modern fairy tale with comic overtones which begins with the identity switch between the gangster Totò (Salvatore Esposito) and the child Rosetta (Fabiana Martucci). Much of the action takes place in the city centre of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), in particular lungomare and piazza Unità d'Italia, with mount Vesuvius often present in the background.
Scenes were also shot in the centre of Ercolano and near elegant, historic Villa Campolieto, which served as the gangster’s abode, featuring frescoes, four-poster beds and a tiger as a pet. Locations also included several places in Vico Equense (Naples) and Rome.
