My Eyes As a Stranger

Synopsis: Story about the friendship between an English filmmaker and Nicola, a Sicilian ex-gangster who lives in Florence. The documentary moves to and fro between a street of ill repute and the field where Nicola plays medieval football, an early ball game also known as ‘mob football’ because of the lack of rules regulating the matches. By the end of the Autumn Nicola’s situation deteriorates both on the football pitch and in the street. The film, shot over a period of 18 months, provided the source material for De Bromhead’s Ph.D on masculinity among petty criminals and was also broadcast by ARTE, the television channel for European culture.
Country: France
Year of release: 2017
Year of production: 1984
Subjects: Anthropology
Keywords: football; identity; Mafia; gender differences; masculinity

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