Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Massimo Troisi, already sensing the approaching end, takes the lead role in 'Il Postino'. His life, cut short at forty-one, unfolds as a rapid journey from a brilliant stage actor to a poignant film director. This documentary explores his brief yet incredibly rich creative biography through archival footage and interviews with loved ones and colleagues. The film reveals how physical weakness and awareness of a fatal diagnosis did not break the artist but instead sparked an incredible humanity and poetry in his final work. It is a story of how art becomes the last and strongest statement against oblivion.