Burning Love (Italian: Pecore in erba) is a 2015 mockumentary comedy film written and directed by Alberto Caviglia. It premiered in the Horizons section at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
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Plot
In July 2006, the major television news channels reported the death of Leonardo Zuliani. In Rome, a large group of followers gathers in front of the young activist's birthplace in Trastevere. The mother is desperate, the neighborhood paralyzed and all the authorities express their solidarity with the family while a large demonstration is held in her honor.
An important detail is that what makes Leonardo a national hero is his being anti-Semitic.
Cast
Davide Giordano as Leonardo
Anna Ferruzzo as Leonardo's Mother
Omero Antonutti as Leonardo's Grandfather
Francesco Pannofino as Leonardo's Father
Bianca Nappi as Leonardo's Sister
Mimosa Campironi as Sofia
Alberto Di Stasio as Psychiatrist
Lorenza Indovina as Leonardo's Teacher
Francesco Russo as Guglielmo
Niccolò Senni as Mario
Paola Minaccioni as President of AILA
Marco Ripoldi as Antonio Persica
Massimiliano Gallo as Don Ciro
Vinicio Marchioni as Fictional Leonardo in the Movie
Carolina Crescentini as Fictional Sofia in the Movie
Margherita Buy as Fictional Leonardo's Mother in the Movie
Tommaso Mercuri as Leonardo as a Child