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Gol!a

2023 · 92 min Drama
8.1 / 10 · TMDB

Golia is a former rugby champion suffering from dementia. every day he wakes up convinced that he is still young and is away with his team, only to learn that he is living inside a nursing home and has lost all contact with his wife and children. alessandro, another guest of the nursing home, is a former professor of ancient literature suffering from paraplegia. alessandro has one last ambition left: to help golia break out of the nursing home and reunite him with his family, overcoming the defense lines of the institution’s mean-spirited staff and showing the institutions how senility and illness are not valid pretexts for defining the social worthlessness of man.

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Year 2023
Country Italy
Genre Drama
Director Roberto Marra
Runtime 92 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.1/10 (18 votes)

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The film sidesteps easy sentimentality, offering instead a clear-eyed, often poignant look at aging, memory, and institutional indifference. The chemistry between the two leads—their shared vulnerability and stubborn hope—forms the story's resilient core.

What lingers after the final scene is a quiet affirmation of personhood against all odds. It's a reminder that within systems and diagnoses, individual worlds of love and longing persist, demanding to be seen. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Roberto Marra

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