Mister Universo

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Mister Universo
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Directed by Tizza Covi
Rainer Frimmel
Written byTizza Covi
StarringTairo Caroli
Release date
  • 6 August 2016 (2016-08-06)(Locarno)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesAustria
Italy
LanguageItalian

Mister Universo is a 2016 Austrian-Italian drama film directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. [1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. [2] It was also screened at the 2016 Locarno Festival [3] and the 2016 Vienna International Film Festival where it won an award.

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The film shows the everyday life of the slowly disappearing world of the circus with a cast of amateur actors. The winner of the 1957 Mr Universe competition, Arthur Robin, played himself in the film, as did a number of other members of the cast. [4]

Plot

Tairo, a young circus liontamer, loses a lucky horseshoe charm that had been bent out of iron by strongman Arthur Robin, a former winner of the Mr. Universe competition. The horseshoe was given to Tairo when he was a child. After several things go wrong for Tairo and he becomes disenchanted with life, he goes on a search for Arthur Robin to ask him to make a new lucky horseshoe. Tairo reunites with many of his relatives as he searches for Robin, whom he eventually finds living with his wife in a caravan park in Milan.

Cast

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "'Mister Universo': Locarno Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Toronto unveils City To City, World Cinema, Masters line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Locarno Festival. Mr Universo. Retrieved 27 December 2019
  4. ↑ Viennale. Mister Universo (OMDU). Retrieved 26 December 2019
  5. ↑ Viennale archive, 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016


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