A psychological true crime on the first Italian family massacre of the 1900s, based on the novel Percoco by Marcello Introna, here is the trailer for Percoco – the first Monster of Italy.
Unveiled the trailer Of Percoco – the first Monster of Italy, a film written and directed by Pierluigi Ferrandini which will have its world premiere on March 26 at the Bari International Film&TV Festival 2023, in the competitive section ItaliaFilmFest/Nuovo cinema Italiano. The film, an Altre Storie production with Rai Cinema, produced by Cesare Fragnelli with the contribution of the Puglia Region – Apulia Film Commission and with the support of the MiC, will be released as a special event only on 17, 18 and 19 April, thanks to the theatrical distribution of quality signed More Stories.
In the night between 26 and 27 May 1956, in a Bari at the dawn of the economic boom, Franco Percoco, coming from a petit-bourgeois family, carries out the first family massacre in the history of Italy of the twentieth century, killing with a kitchen knife parents and younger brother and living for ten days with their corpses at home. A crime that has shocked public opinion, which Ferrandini has chosen to tell in his psychological true crime Percoco – the first Monster of Italy, based on the novel Percoco by Marcello Introna (published by Mondadori). The film focuses on a precise period of time: the days following the crime, those happy damned days in which Franco, the good boy ever, is finally free to live and have fun in the absence of his parents, while little by little the monster that lurks in his mind.
In the cast Gianluca Vicari, in the role of Franco Percoco, flanked by Giuseppe Scoditti, Rebecca Metcalf, Federica Pagliaroli, Laura Gigante, Francesca Antonaci, Fabrizio Traversa, Antonio Monsellato, Pinuccio Sinisi, Raffaele Braia, Pietro Naglieri, Chiara Scelsi, Elena Cantarone, Michele Mirabella. Photography was entrusted to Filippo Silvestris, sound to Piero Parisi, editing to Mauro Ruvolo. The original music is by Christian Lindberg, the scenography is by Walter Caprara and the costumes are by Magda Accolti Gil. The production delegate Altre Storie is Francesca Schirru.
This is the synopsis of Percoco – the first Monster of Italy: The true story of the first Italian family massacre of the twentieth century: Franco Percoco. In the night between 26 and 27 May 1956, in Bari, he exterminates his family with a kitchen knife and starts a new life: from university student to rich viveur, savoring all the joys of his admirable time, that of the economic boom , living ten days with the corpses of his parents and brother walled up in the house. No murderer had ever lived so long with his victims up to that moment.
