The hand of God

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Directed by Director's notes
  • Paolo Sorrentino
Year
  • 2021
Length
  • 2h 10'
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Directed by
  • Paolo Sorrentino
Year
  • 2021
Length
  • 2h 10'
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Cast
  • Filippo Scotti
  • Toni Servillo
  • Teresa Saponangelo
 
  • Marlon Joubert
  • Luisa Ranieri
  • Renato Carpentieri
  • Massimiliano Gallo
  • Betti Pedrazzi
  • Biagio Manna
  • Ciro Capano
  • Enzo Decaro
  • Lino Musella
  • Sofya Gershevich
  • Dora Romano
Synopsis

From Academy Award–winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) comes a deeply personal story of heartbreak and self-discovery set in 1980s Naples. The Hand of God follows Fabietto Schisa, a shy teenager whose life — and that of his vibrant, eccentric family — is suddenly overturned by two events: the electrifying arrival of soccer legend Diego Maradona, and a tragic accident from which Fabietto is inadvertently spared. What follows is the beginning of his journey toward an unexpected future.
Sorrentino returns to his hometown to tell his most intimate tale — a story of fate and family, of sport and cinema, of love and loss.

Director's notes
  • Director's Statement - Paolo Sorrentino

    The Hand of God is a coming-of-age story that aims, stylistically, to avoid the traps of conventional autobiography: hyperbole, victimhood, pity, compassion, and the indulgence of pain, through a simple, sparse, and essential staging and with neutral, sober music and photography. Cinematography’s apparatus will take a step back so as to let the life of those years speak, in the way I remember them—in the way I experienced them, felt them. Simply put, this is a film about sensibility. And hovering above everything, so close and yet so far, is Maradona, that ghostly idol, five foot five, who seemed to sustain the lives of everyone in Naples, or at least mine.
Story and screenplay
  • Paolo Sorrentino
Produced by
  • Lorenzo Mieli
  • Paolo Sorrentino
  • The Apartment
Distributed by
  • Netflix
Broadcaster
  • Netflix
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Director's Statement - Paolo Sorrentino

The Hand of God is a coming-of-age story that aims, stylistically, to avoid the traps of conventional autobiography: hyperbole, victimhood, pity, compassion, and the indulgence of pain, through a simple, sparse, and essential staging and with neutral, sober music and photography. Cinematography’s apparatus will take a step back so as to let the life of those years speak, in the way I remember them—in the way I experienced them, felt them. Simply put, this is a film about sensibility. And hovering above everything, so close and yet so far, is Maradona, that ghostly idol, five foot five, who seemed to sustain the lives of everyone in Naples, or at least mine.