Snake is on the lam, wanted by the police for attempted murder. He has to erase his past to flee the scene, equipped with a new identity. He lives in an apartment building that is a world unto itself, a beehive of apartments and businesses run by the Chinese community, and here he waits for Arturo, a con residing in the same community, to find a way to get him a new passport. Every day, the same routine: Snake wakes up early and works out. Push-ups, abs, the bar. A glass of milk. He meditates; he goes out. Comes home after his shift, eats dinner, has a shower and off to bed. A new day dawns. Push-ups, abs, the bar. Shower. A glass of milk. Off to work. Awaiting a new chapter. Messing up his plan is his encounter with Kyru. Things get complicated, and Snake has to decide if he should give up on his only change to leave the building for a new life, or help Kyru.
series subject
Giuseppe Capotondi
Fabrizio Cestaro
Ivano Fachin
Paolo Vari
Ciro Visco
Stefano Voltaggio
Dario Bonamin
Naima Vitale Cappiello
Laura Grimaldi
Paolo Piccirillo
head writer
Ivano Fachin
fotography
Guido Michelotti
editing
Marcello Saurino
soundtrack by
Salmo
music
Iuvne
Verano
Riva Undici
production design
Totoi Santoro
costumes
Sara Costantini
Marilisa Cosello
cast
Salmo (Snake)
Alessandro Borghi (Arturo)
Andrea Dodero (Mahdi)
Elisa Wong (Li)
Jun Lancini (Yun)
Alessio Lu (Zhao)
Chen Wang
(Yun’s Henchman)
Qi Wang
(Yun’s Henchman)
executive producers
Carlo Sgarzi
David Fischer
Daniele Gentili
Nils Hartmann
Chiara Cucci
productions
Sky Studios
Tapelessfilm
Red Joint
Ciro Visco started out in filmmaking as a young director’s assistant, running the gamet of all the jobs that entails, until he became an AD in 2007. In this role, he worked on films, TV series both Italian and international, documentaries, and commercials. He served as second unit director, for example, of various episodes of every season of the series Gomorrah. And it was just the celebrated series based on the novel by Roberto Saviano that gave him his big break in 2019, when he directed two episodes of season four. The same year, he started working on the series DOC, directing eight episodes, then, in 2020, directed the Sky series Non mi lasciare. In 2021, he teamed up with Sky Italia once more, on the series Blocco 181, directing the last four episodes of the first season and now the complete upcoming second season, called Gangs of Milano – Le nuove storie del blocco.
