Filmed entirely inside Civitavecchia prison, with the inmates themselves as protagonists and co-authors, Fortezza is the reinterpretation of one of the most important novels of the 1900s: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. Three soldiers arrive at a solitary military garrison which no longer serves...
They are the only two survivors of an plane crash; two more different people you couldn’t imagine; an Italian Frenchman who’s always rushing about, always angry and who’s made a lot of money in his life and left his ideals by the wayside, together with a Japanese cook, who’s calm, relaxed...
