Main Cast:
Rutger Hauer - Maciste
Manuela Martelli - Bianca
Luigi Ciardo - Tomas
Nicolas Vaporidis - Libio
Alessandro Giallocosta - Boloñes

Screenplay:
Alicia Scherson, based on "Una Novelita Lumpen" by Roberto Bolaño

Plot:
Two Chilean children, whose parents die in a car crash in Italy, quickly descend into a spiral of prostitution and petty crime in Rome.

Maciste, a blind one-time herculean star at Rome's Cinecitta studios, befriends the two orphans left to their own devices in the Italian capital.

Notes:
Alicia stated that '...since I first read Bolaño's 'Una Novelita Lumpen', I found it to be small and dense like a gemstone. An austere and concise work of contained emotions, a lucid and lean reflection about youth and despair in big cities. Its simple forms and precision is exactly what makes it so adaptable to film.... It tells the story of Bianca, a young woman who must face her parents’ death and start a long and dark voyage through poverty and prostitution. But this downfall into the 'lumpen' becomes a trip to adulthood, a clumsy and dangerous way to mourn, to accept death and face the future'.

Rutger with Bolaño's book

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