“For a child, a father is always a superhero!”
Pietro is eight years old and in pain: his father, locked up under the 41-bis regime, for him is not a criminal but Super Vito, a superhero who fights the bad guys from the "secret lair" of the prison. Between supervised conversations and stories invented by his mother to protect him, Pietro builds a world in which his father is an avenger, not a prisoner. When Vito decides to collaborate with justice and become a repentant, Pietro's imaginary universe collapses. The child's life is put in danger by the clan's retaliation, but just then Vito makes his last gesture of love: sacrificing himself to save his son. In Pietro's gaze, that sacrifice does not erase the hero, but makes him real, forever transforming his image of "Super Vito" into that of a father capable of choosing good.
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Giacomo Pietro Benvenuto
Pietro
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Massimiliano Benvenuto
Vito
Known for
A Breath of Fresh Air
Elisabetta Rocchetti
Known for
The Embalmer
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Miriam Candurro
Known for
Wacky Heroes
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Francesco Panarella
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Elisabetta Rocchetti Director · Domenico Capasso Writer
First release September 6, 2025 · Produced in Italy
Production
Maia Production srl
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Italy
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Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · September 6, 2025
Premiere · Venice International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Italy
July 10, 2026 · Premiere · Social World Film Festival
September 24, 2026 · Premiere · Ortigia Film Festival
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