Moroccan Samad (Mehdi Meskar) is a former drug dealer who has paid his dues with the law and now has a job as a gardener and a new life. Father Agostino (Roberto Citran), his friend and mentor, invites him to prison to talk about his new life as a free man to serve an inspiration for his companions, an example of reintegration. But it's the wrong day: a fight explodes the anger and resentment of the inmates, who decide to barricade themselves in the prison library. Samad has to choose identity: Muslim or Christian, accomplice or hostage.
Filmed and set in Bologna, Marco Santarelli's first film, Samad, has many scenes in the prison where Samad was once imprisoned: the set was the San Lazzaro prison in Piacenza.
Moroccan Samad (Mehdi Meskar) is a former drug dealer who has paid his dues with the law and now has a job as a gardener and a new life. Father Agostino (Roberto Citran), his friend and mentor, invites him to prison to talk about his new life as a free man to serve an inspiration for his companions, an example of reintegration. But it's the wrong day: a fight explodes the anger and resentment of the inmates, who decide to barricade themselves in the prison library. Samad has to choose identity: Muslim or Christian, accomplice or hostage.
Filmed and set in Bologna, Marco Santarelli's first film, Samad, has many scenes in the prison where Samad was once imprisoned: the set was the San Lazzaro prison in Piacenza.
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Samad has done it. He’s paid his dues with the law and now has a job, a new life. Father Agostino, his friend and mentor, invites him to give a talk in prison about his new life as a free man, to be an inspiration to his companions, an example of reintegration. But it's the wrong day: a fight explodes the anger and resentment of the inmates who barricade themselves in the prison library. Samad is forced to choose identity: Muslim or Christian, accomplice or hostage.
