Video version of the dramatic dystopian performance staged by Alexander Sokurov in Vicenza, on the stage of the world's oldest theater Teatro Olimpico. The plot is based on a free interpretation of the works of I. A. Brodsky, which tells about two characters doomed to life imprisonment.
Piero Saggion is a teenager who lives in Marghera, Venice's industrial area known for its "Petrochemicals", plays rugby and spends much time with his friend Sergio. When Nestor, an Argentine worker in the small firm his father Antonio owns, remains badly burned at the end of a day's work with too...
Part three of the trilogy, centred on the Swiss tenor August Schram, is now located in an opera house during a running performance of Donizetti's humorous melodrama "L'elisir d'amore" and furnished with a memorable cast of characters.
