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Elio Germano as Giorgio and Tom Wlaschiha as W.R Neumann in Rose Island
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Like novels, everyone’s got an island in them. It’s a common enough dream to have a scrap of land to call your own; somewhere that’s free, inviolate, ours alone.
But like the realms of manuscripts languishing in dusty drawers, most people shelve those dreams when the responsibilities of adulthood begin to lap at their feet.
Not Giorgio Rosa. In spring 1967, the Italian engineer designed and funded a 400m
2 platform in the sea, over 7 miles off the coast of Rimini. Hoisted 26 metres off the seabed by steel pipework, Rosa’s project was an ungainly construction: a concrete bungalow squatting on an oil rig.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want). In
Rose Island, an idealistic inventor creates his own island off the coast of Italy and declares it a sovereign nation with its own citizens, passports and language.
Italy, 1968. Giorgio Rosa (Elio Germano), a gifted yet misunderstood engineer has hit rock bottom. Fired from his job and shunned by Gabriella (
The Undoing’s Matilda De Angelis), who is about to marry another man, Giorgio is sick of the stuffy rules of Italian society of the late 60s and frustrated by the lack of imagination around him. With the help of his best friend Maurizio (Leonardo Lidi), he hatches a seemingly impossible plan: he intends to build a platform on the Adriatic Sea and call it his new home.