Alberto Fasulo : 2013
Branko has been a truck driver for only a few months, a choice that is quite understandable, given that he now earns three times as much as he did as a schoolteacher. But everything has a price, which is not always quantifiable in terms of money. As children we were told: "work ennobles man". But here the opposite seems true: it is Branko, with his efficiency, his obstinacy, his good will, who ennobles a job that grows more and more alienating, absurd and enslaving. Rather than a film about a truck driver, this is a film about a paradox. The paradox of a job that makes you live far away from the people you care about, and for whom you are actually working. Instead of focusing on a sociological point of view, the film examines the character under the skin, in a moment of personal crisis which forced him to make a decision that was not only practical, but ethical and existential as well. Documentary filmmaker Alberto Fasulo's first fiction feature was winner of the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award when it premiered at Rome Film Festival 2013.
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