Thou Shalt Not Hate

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The story of THOU SHALL NOT HATE (NON ODIARE) is set in a city in the northeast, a Central European non-place, a combination of heterogeneous history, different ethnic groups, and its Jewish community has deep roots. Here, in the old town, lives Simone Segre (Alessandro Gassmann, the son of legendary Italian actor Vittorio Gassmann), an established surgeon of Jewish origin: he has a quiet, regular, smooth life, an elegant apartment. He has no ties to the past. The harsh disagreements with his father, a recently deceased concentration camp veteran, have led him to turn away from him since several years now. One day, returning from his weekly rowing training, Simone rescues a man who has been the victim of a hit-and-run driver. But when he discovers a Nazi tattoo on his chest, he has to make a choice about saving this man’s life. In the following days, Simone will track down the neo-Nazi family who lives in a popular suburban complex: Marica, the eldest daughter (Sara Serraiocco); Marcello (Luka Zunic), in his first leading role as co-star, the teenage son also infected by the seed of racial hatred; the "little" Paolo (Lorenzo Buonora). The night will come when Marica will knock on Simone's door, forcing him to face the consequences of his actions.
With this award-winning small cast (lauded at Venice International Film Festival), director Mauro Mancini elegantly creates a cinematic experience challenging the characters’ morality in the face of their conflicting ideologies. By doing so, he sheds new cinematic light on the Italian Jewish community and Holocaust victims and survivors, reigniting a dialogue that had in recent years had only so rarely appeared on the map of Italian mainstream culture.

This film is geoblocked to the San Francisco Bay Area

In 2005, the Italian director Mauro Mancini, making his feature directorial debut here, directed his first short film Il nostro segreto, which won several awards. Followed by many other shorts film, 14 for the Telethon foundation and 4 for Rai Cinema, mini- series, music videos (including two for Simone Cristicchi).

In 2009 he writes and directs two segments of the collective film FEISBUM! In 2017 he writes and directs the mini tv series 4NNA quella che (non) sei and the mini-tv series Teddy. Several times on the short list at Cannes Lions, My Voice (winner of a "Gold" and a "Silver" at the Clio Awards), Feel The View (winner of several awards including a "Silver" at the Clio Awards, the Webby Award and a "Gold" at ADCI) and Safe, the commercial for the baseball world championship shot in 2009, are among the most important commercials he shot.