Set in a war-torn land where tribal factions live in fear of annihilation, the film tells the story of a deadly warrior leading a destructive war campaign. When he is betrayed by his own and left for dead, he is healed by a mysterious princess and taken in by a hidden tribe that believes he was chosen to wage a final battle.
在外星人的眼中,地球人就是供他们玩乐的消遣。一群外星人打了一个赌,赌注是地球的存亡。他们在地球上随机选了一个人,赋予他心想事成的超能力,如果这个人最终成为了贪得无厌的恶人,外星人就选择把地球毁灭,但如果这个人依然维持着善良的本性,则意味着地球仍然有着继续运转的意义。
平凡而又内向的中学老师尼尔(西蒙·佩吉 Simon Pegg 饰)成为了这名干系到地球存亡的天选之子,在拥有了超能力后,尼尔的身边发生了一连串有惊无险令人不知该笑还是该害怕的意外。与此同时,尼尔默默爱慕的女子凯瑟琳(凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)也被卷入了危险之中。
Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
Cosimo, a buffalo farmer, refuses to sell off his land to the family of the young mayor candidate. When he finds out he has a tumour caused by all the toxic waste that are illegally disposed of in the fields of the so-called “Land of Fires”, his wife decides to carry on his battle.
Diego OlivaresDiego Olivares (1965) is a Neapolitan director, scriptwriter and dialogues writer. After directing some short films he embarks in the making of a documentary about the closing of the Frullone psychiatric hospital in Naples, Gli ultimi giorni del Frullone – Cronache da un manicomio nel 2000. In 2003, he directs his first feature film I chinghiali di Portici. In 2014, he directs the short film Canemalato produced by Figli del Bronx for Sky Cinema.