SMOKINGS

by Michele Fronasero

HD, color, 90’, 2014

coproduction with Indyca., RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktion

original version: Italian

Festival selections: Visions du Réel, Nyon, April 2014 - Visions du Réel 2014 - Festival dei Popoli 2014

The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people would buy cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and Lucky Strikes online. When sales reached over one hundred million, "Big Tobacco" started to fight the "Little Guys" and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down. The two brothers decided to build their own cigarette manufacturing company in the outskirts of Turin, taking the fight to Philip Morris in an effort to level the playing field. Their goal is to take revenge and to attack tobacco multinationals by every means at their disposal. But today, the Italian government too and their severe regulations has changed the course of this on-going debate. So the two brothers are even more dedicated to try and fight against the system. smoKings is like a gangster movie, in that there are not good guys here, just small bad guys fighting big bad guys. Who's going to win this unfair battle?

SMOKINGS    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Michele Fronasero Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its […]