Desc: Il film di Mario: Directed by Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni Piperno. With Mario Giammaria. Mario is a forty-year-old grandfather. He is unemployed and lives in a city in southern Italy. He was released from a juvenile prison when he was seventeen. He embarked as a dishwasher on various freighters. In the meantime, he went in and out of the "tunnel of drugs." When his son was born, he decided to emigrate to Australia with his family. Down under on the other side of the world, he did odd jobs and maybe a few little swindles. Things never seemed to turn out. Ten years later, Mario decided to return to Bari. When he went back, he began to dream of becoming an actor and dancer, but he was living off of odd, temporary jobs and insurance payments. "One day we learn that during the Christmas holidays Mario is hired to be the guardian of a grotesque nativity scene used by a photographer as a backdrop to portray the children. Imagining the enthusiasm and positive spirit with which he would also face this new job , we decide that this is an excellent opportunity to make a documentary about him. But Mario also decides that we are an excellent opportunity to make his film, the dream he had in his drawer: the film about his life" (Agostino Ferrente , Giovanni Piperno).