The handshake

Stefano, a very introverted ten years old boy, after having lost his father, lives in the myth of Napoleon. A friend of his mother tells him that the power of the Emperor was given to him by an ancestor by shaking his hand and passed from one generation to the other until him. The man shakes the child’s hand. He is at the peak of happiness, until at a party …

Director: Davide Marengo
Screenplay: Dino Gentili, Filippo Gentili, Davide Marengo
Cast: Simone Ascani, Isa Gallinelli
Photography: Ivan Casalgrandi
Editing: Patrizio Marone
Music: Massimo Nunzi
Sound: Davide Gaudenzi

Production: Orisa Produzioni, Studio Universal
Distribution: Orisa Produzioni

Title: La stretta di mano
Original version: Italian
Year of production: 2002
Length: 13′