Lubo

Lubo is a nomad, a busker who in 1939 is called up to the Swiss army to defend the country’s borders against the risk of a German invasion. Shortly afterward he finds out that his wife has died in the attempt to stop the gendarmes from taking away their three small children, who, as Yenisch, have been removed from their family as part of the national program of reeducation for “children of the road” (Hilfswerk für die Kinder der Landstrasse). Lubo knows that he will never have peace until he gets his children back and gets justice for his story and that of all outsiders like himself.

Reading Mario Cavatore’s novel Il seminatore revealed to me the little-known story of something that went on in Switzerland for a period of fifty years, leading me to reflect on the sense of justice, on institutions, on what it means to bring up children and love them. Out of this came the film Lubo, in which the unfolding of events shows how senseless principles and discriminatory laws engender an evil that spreads like wildfire over time, penetrating into people’s lives and altering their course and their values, generating suffering, anger, violence, ambiguity... but also a love for life and for one’s children that is determined to overcome everything and bring justice.

PRODUCTION 1: Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Marco Cohen, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli – Indiana Production
Via De Amicis, 53
20123 – Milano, Italia
Tel. +39 0286894470
info@indianaproduction.com

PRODUCTION 2: Giorgio Diritti, Francesca Scorzoni – Aranciafilm
Via Castiglione, 6/2
40124 – Bologna, Italia
Tel. +39 0516569657
info@aranciafilm.com

PRODUCTION 3: Paolo Del Brocco – Rai Cinema
Piazza Adriana, 12
00193 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0633179601
anna.pomara@raicinema.it

PRODUCTION 4: Christof Neracher – Hugofilm Features
Zypressenstrasse 76 CH
8004 – Zurigo, Switzerland
Tel. +41 442404077
features@hugofilm.ch

OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: Claudio Falconi Alberto, Fusco Andrea Masera - Proxima Milano
Via XX Settembre, 24
20123 – Milano
Tel. +39 0229060904
production@proximamilano.com

WORLD SALES: Gaetano Maiorino - True Colours Glorious Films Srl
Largo Italo Gemini, 1
00161 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0637352334
gaetano@truecolours.it

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Luigi Lonigro – 01 Distribution
Piazza Adriana, 12
00193 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0633179601
anna.pomara@raicinema.it

PRESS OFFICE: Gordon Spragg, Laurin Dietrich, Michael Arnon - WOLF Consultants
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ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE: Giulia Santaroni - Fosforo Press
Via Nicolò Piccolomini, 1
00165 – Roma, Italia
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