Mister Universo
- 6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) (Locarno)
Italy
Mister Universo is a 2016 Austrian-Italian drama film directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel.[1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] It was also screened at the 2016 Locarno Festival[3] and the 2016 Vienna International Film Festival where it won an award.
The film shows the everyday life of the slowly disappearing world of the circus with a cast of amateur actors. The winner of the 1957 Mr Universe competition, Arthur Robin, played himself in the film, as did a number of other members of the cast.[4]
Plot
Tairo, a young circus liontamer, loses a lucky horseshoe charm that had been bent out of iron by strongman Arthur Robin, a former winner of the Mr. Universe competition. The horseshoe was given to Tairo when he was a child. After several things go wrong for Tairo and he becomes disenchanted with life, he goes on a search for Arthur Robin to ask him to make a new lucky horseshoe. Tairo reunites with many of his relatives as he searches for Robin, whom he eventually finds living with his wife in a caravan park in Milan.
Cast
- Tairo Caroli
- Wendy Weber
- Arthur Robin
- Lilly Robin
Awards
- MehrWERT-Filmpreis der Erste Bank (Erste Bank’s MoreValue Film Award), Vienna International Film Festival, 2016.[5]
References
- ^ "'Mister Universo': Locarno Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Toronto unveils City To City, World Cinema, Masters line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Locarno Festival. Mr Universo. Retrieved 27 December 2019
- ^ Viennale. Mister Universo (OMDU). Retrieved 26 December 2019
- ^ Viennale archive, 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016
External links
- Mister Universo at IMDb
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