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2016 5.5 (56 votes) 1h 30m

Genres

Drama Mystery Crime Thriller

Production Companies

Vivo Film
Tarantula
RAI Cinema
IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund
MiC
Eurimages
Creative Europe Media
Regione Lazio
RAI

Children of the Night (I figli della notte)

Overview

17 years-old Giulio is sent by his mother to a boarding school for difficult offspring of rich families. The institution is sort of a “golden prison”, isolated in the Alps, to which inadequate parents delegate the task of educating the ruling class of the future. In this cold and ghastly place the boys are cut off from everything. Adhering to the strict rules of the boarding school is hard, but Giulio finds a good friend in Edoardo, who is maybe a little crazy, but who seems the smartest of all. They find out that security becomes more relaxed at night and they start running away to a nightclub in the middle of the woods. There they meet Elena, a young prostitute whose destiny will be unforgettably linked to theirs. The night is a space of freedom, of new and perturbing experiences for Giulio and Edoardo. But what they don’t know is that their transgressions are part of the educational program of the school.