Shun Li and the Poet (Io sono Li) (2011)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Andrea Segre

Starring

Tao Zhao
Shun Li

Rade Serbedzija
Bepi, il poeta

Marco Paolini
Coppe

Roberto Citran
Avvocato

Giuseppe Battiston
Devis

Giordano Bacci
Baffo

Zhong Cheng
Zang

Andrea Pennacchi
Sandro

Written by

Andrea Segre
(story)

Marco Pettenello
(screenplay)

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IO SONO LI TRAILER

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Q&A w/ Andrea Segre, "Shun Li and the Poet"

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Description: Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed the Poet by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not more distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of a lagoon, which can be both the mother and cradle of identities, which never keep still. But the friends ... (more)

Release date: 23 September 2011