Travelers on Sky between charm, friendship and action

un courageous film for the made in Italy that throws itself headlong intoadventure, in the action (this also includes video games and the wuxiapian) And you also go through time with a group of unknown actors (the good guys, the bad guys are well known). Travelers by Ludovico Di Martino, from tonight on Sky Cinema and streamed on Nowtakes us into the cinema of the eighties and nineties, in which a group of boys is catapulted by mistake into the 1939, in the Rome of the Fascist period.

They will have to try to return in 2022, save the world from an evil plan of the disfigured gendarme Luzio (Fabrizio Gifuni)who plans to deliver a never-before-seen weapon to Mussoliniand help a friend through a loss.

Travelers: the plot

max (Matthew Schiavone), drip (Fabio Bizzarro) e Greta (Andreagaia Wlderk) are best friends. One day Beo Fulci (Gianmarco Saurino), brother of max and young researcher of quantum physics, dies together with his boss, the doctor Sestrieri (Vanessa Scalera), due to an accident in the company. They were working on a time machine. Max is desperateunable to mourn.

What if Had the brother been trapped somewhere in a timeline? The question arises when by chance the three friends sneak into the laboratory where the accident occurred. Suddenly they find themselves in 1939in a Rome shaken by racial lawsand where they meet the young resistance fighter Leila (Francesca Alice Antonini) who will help them extricate themselves from the onslaught of the fascists. Here they will find the cell phone of Beo and they will discover that he is still alive together with the diabolical Sestrieriwho plans to build a new time machine to deliver to Mussolini to clear the future e change the story.

The young protagonists of “The Travellers”. (Sky)

A trip to 1939 and Steven Spielberg’s cinema

Ludovico Di Martino thinking about this film looked at the films with which he grew up in the nineties: «Those I used to see on TV at Christmas on Italia 1, from The Neverending Storyto Page masters with Macaulay Culkinto the films of Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis». Which is kind of the basis used by the Duff brothers for Stranger Things. Neither Travelers the reference to is clear Back to the Futureto the most recent The Lord of the Rings (the bond of friendship between Sam and Frodo is often quoted) and the thought immediately turns to Goonies: “It’s not actually part of my adolescence and honestly when I saw it it didn’t drive me crazy”, declares the director. There is also the swashbuckling cinema and video game characters and rhythm (Fortnite docet).

Friends Max, Flebo and Greta. (Sky)

The hilarious villains: Vanessa Scalera and Fabrizio Gifuni

The director enjoys juxtaposing unknown (for now) young actors with two aces of theatre, cinema and TV such as Vanessa Scalera (Imma Tataranni) And Fabrizio Gifuni (just seen on Rai 1 in the part of Aldo Moro). They are two super villains. Vanessa, to play the part of mad scientist Sestrierishe underwent three hours of makeup. A brilliant womanfrustrated at the time in which she lives (their research funds are cut) and who in 1939 finds a ransom, a recognition he cannot renounce. “She is a bad word and is the only one who rejuvenates in spirit by going back in time,” comments the director.

Gifuni instead he interprets Luzioa wicked gendarmedisfigured (almost unrecognizable), always looking for those who oppose the regime, ready to do anything to enforce the rules. He is the action villain. You will see our actor as you have never seen him: ruthless and skilled fighter who beats her with the sword. He is a fascist who uses little weapons, he is a kind of dthe samurai of the regime who is opposed to Lena, the samurai of the resistance.

Fabrizio Gifuni as the villain Luzio. (Sky)

Italian films set during fascism

More and more action and genre films made in Italy are set in the fascist period. Let’s think about Freaks Outwhich has somewhat launched the “fashion”, to the very recent We rob the Duce with the couple Matilda DeAngelis And Peter Castellittooa Once upon a time there was crime by Massimiliano Bruno, who brings back the protagonists of the third chapter of the saga during the war All we have left is crime (Edward Leo, Marco Giallini And Gianmarco Tognazzi). But it all began with comedy I’m back (2018) by Luca Miniero (remake of the German film He’s back) in which it was Mussolini to travel through time and reveal themselves in the 2000s.

«We immediately thought of fascism – says the director – we were fascinated by the relatively short distance between us and that historical phase, we wanted to try to breaking down a barrier between my generation and that periodso I thought I’d slip in a youth group today who are catapulted into that era».

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