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Cattleya starts preparing “Siberian Education”

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After the success of Romanzo Criminale [+see also:
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(a hit both in its film and TV versions), Cattleya will once again adapt a harsh and disturbing book, Educazione Siberiana (“Siberian Education”), a literary debut written directly in Italian by the young Nicolai Lilin.

Riccardo Tozzi’s company bought the rights to Educazione Siberiana, an autobiographical work about the author’s dangerous adolescence before the fall of the USSR, in the criminal ghetto of Transnistria, between Moldavia and the Ukraine. This is where, in the 1930s, Stalin deported diehard Siberian outlaws.

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Theirs is a disturbing world, which has never before been told. In which crime is regulated by iron-clad ethics and "honest criminals” share their love of arms and their hatred towards the police and illicit trafficking, without ever violating the sacred codes: no drugs and the utmost respect for the handicapped and elderly.

No director has yet been attached to the film, which will be scripted by Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia (Romanzo Criminale, The Best of Youth [+see also:
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) and shot in English in regions near those described in the book.

"It is an extraordinary novel about modernity,” says Tozzi. "It is the story of a social group that preserves its identity against Czarism and Stalinism, but loses it with globalization and easy money. It is an edgy story, adventurous and emotional, which speaks to all of us."

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(Translated from Italian)

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