il Vespista - A film about freedom,
friendship and fate.
About three years ago, we started the journey of making a film inspired by the life of Giorgio Bettinelli. He was an Italian actor, writer, musician who is famous for being travelling around the word for more than 300.000 kilometers over 10 years ... on his Vespa.
Giorgio was determined, for better or worse, to live a unique life, pushing boundaries and exceeding the limits. He met eclectic people, learned many languages, experienced unfathomable sit- uations, and even risked his life on more than one occasion. We are sure his experiences, relived through this film, will inspire us to draw our own conclusions, considering the choices and paths in front of us that make us “free” and “realized” according to who we really are.
Sometimes you have to get lost
to find the right way.
Giorgio, an unruled Italian writer, has found a second home in Bali where he leads a relaxed but somehow purposeless life. While pretending to his family that he is working on a novel he never writes, Giorgio spends his days wandering around, drinking whiskey and flirting with tourists.
Wayan, on the other hand, is a Balinese waiter who lives in perpetual debt. Struggling to make ends meet for him and his family, Wayan has to resort to creativity in order to pay his bills. Though right now things don't look so bright for him: owing to a local gangster, he has one day to gather enough money to pay his debt.
The fates of these two very different men cross when Giorgio decides to help his Balinese friend. As a reward, Giorgio will receive a unexpected gift that will change his life forever.
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Alessandro Bonifacio • Simone Mizzotti • Daniele Carella • Daniel Dyke • Bojana Babic • Anika Ritsch • Valentino Ciarrocchi • Christina Müller • Clementino Santos • Accademia di Cinema e Televisione Griffith • Giacomo Piumatti • Paola Scaramozzino • Venice Atienza • Antonella Cavallo • Giovanni Maccarone & Alice Rabino • Alberto Maiella • Heike Rosenberg • Urša Dolgan • Federica Sorbello • Arturo Bastidas • Giancarlo Cortese • Francesco Pedussia Galvagno • Revelli Luca • Allocco Adriano & Grosso Mirella • Paola Busca • Alberto Allocco • Panero Marcello • Nicola Pizzi • Francesco Scudellari • Stefania Camisassa • Israel Bañuelos • Gian Michele Cirilli • Sergio Droetto • Carlo Bertotti • Simone Pagliaro • Migliore Simone • Cosimo Baldari • Jacopo Meneghin • Irina Barilo • Nadja Malin-Potzinger • Giacobino Giuseppe • De Bellis Vincenzo • Giacomo Tofani • Silvana Antichi • Sergio Fontana • Raffaella Perrero • Michele Fichera • Livio Depaoli • Agnese Stabio • Rosario Ammirati • Mattia Stabio • Trione Bruno • Vincenzo Pagliari • Orient Vespa • Prete Paolo • Ivano Bologna • Sabrina & Dario • Judith Giessauf • Cinzia Milani • Bocchi Diego • Anna Maria Bonino • Miriam Giaveri • Mario Vogel • Eleonora Monge • Elio Manzone • Renato Colicigno • Matteo Gallo • Martin Mühlburger • Michele Ciulla • Daniel Andrei • Igor Postrekhin • Ezequiel Sá • Lucia Torera • Corderro Bruno • Daiana Leone & Antonello Lapenta • Panero Domenico • Dellavalle Bernardo • Antonella Fossati • Vespa Club Bra "La Zizzola" • Nava Stefano • Davide Magnaldo • Buffolo Davide & Dellavalle Monica • Mathia Fresia & Sara Terenzi • Livio Montersino • Monia Vissino • Maria Luisa Barolo • Elisa & Giorgio • Roberto Funes Abrahão • Daniela Mora • Associazione The Monkeys Vintage Scootering • Roberto Negro & Silvana Mirando • Dario Sinacori • Ponzio Elena & Massimo Gallis • Jessica Gallo & Andrea Provenzano • Valeria Murad Birolli • Alice Tealdi & Mario Ferrero • Tortu Marco • Alessandro Giuseppe • Nora & Oliver • Ottolini Valerio • Filippo Bonfante • Bernhard Gröbner • Benedetto & Margherita Russo • Vishal Vittal • Falcone Diego • Vincenzo Bazzani • Simona Tacchini • Davide Villivà • Andrea Burdese • Maria Teresa Beltrando & Gigi Giachetto • Michelle & Charlie • Annelies Sieghartsleitner • Vale & Isa • Paola & Maurizio Livi • Pietro Mognetti • Fabio Salini • Lorenzo Franchini • Simone Mizzotti • Alessandro Pozzi (Il Viaggiatore) • Anne Marie Meleri • Fabio Cofferati • Kashif Bashir • Marco De Musso Usaguar • Nicoletta Matelloni • Alessandro Sardo • Vittorio & Miriam Molinari • Piovani Cistine • Emanuela Nichetti • Andreina Castellazzi • Luca Fusarpoli • Ferrari Desiderio • Mario Fabrizio & Giorgio • Enrico Frattini• Ferrari Ercole • Re Miriam Annalisa • Vittorio Molinari • Zaghen Kais • Giancarlo Fierli • Fabio Tosto • Ciocca Adelaida • Carlo Scantamburlo • Antonio Crivaro • Rui Dias • Laura Rossi & Richi Severgnini • Giuseppe Lopez • Giulia Severgnini • Chiara Ghigorno • Roberto Zagheni • Matteo Gallo & Manuela Marengo • Giacomo Bargigia• Pedro Max Schwarz • Harald Schwarzmann • Nick de Grazia • Milano Maria Laura • Costamagna Luciano • Nicoletta Scaramozzino • Giacosa "Vespa Club Roero” • Borgogno Samuele • Luisa e Gilberto Anai • Anja Sieghartsleitner • Priolo Michele "Vespa Club Verzuolo”• Giuseppe Raineri • Valentina Olivero • Costanza Sardo & Filippo Ballaira • Franco Masoero • Aurora Chiesa & Pino Chiesa • Gallo Gianfranco • Roby Tex • Maddalena Saetta & Giacomo Manzone • Vespa Club Roero - Ceresole d'Alba • Roxanne Rahim • Oreficeria Principe - Bra • Marco Muzi Falconi • Enrico Babucci • Bissacco Gian Mario • Marco Revello • Maria Luisa Cravero • Giuffrida Maria Paola • Mazzardi Adone • Vito & Carmela Burgio • Francis Klisch • Daniele Nicolosi • Rosalba Pascale • Lisa Kühne • Margherita Amoroso • Rui Simões - Vespa Clube de Lisboa • Gabriele Conti • Giuliano Marotta • Ignez Funes • Lella Sangiorgio • Renato Suardi • Tiziano Amboni • Sara Musazzi • Giovanni Colangelo • Serina Mario • Alvino Sabato • Hanno Mackowitz • Michael Kremmel • Florian Gut • Roberta Salvatore • Rudi & Elisabeth Kopf • Ashlon Hill • Julia Rothmund-Fallas • Abdallah Sada • Francesca Falcone • Priska & Kurt Ludescher • Fabian Rüdisser • Antonio Gastaldi • Giordanengo Paolo • Francesca Breccia • Selina Stecher • Alessandro Pastura • Nuno & Aga • Dulma • Adelaida Pardo • Angela & Gabriele Angrisano • Allemandi Paolo • Beltramo Lino • Enzo Rosso • Demichelis Federica • Claudio Gianolio • Anna Silva • Kia • Elos Maria Rosa • Crosetti Lodovico • Daniela & Antonino Termini • Taricco Marco & Cristina • Daniela Scarzello, • Daniele Tavo • Maria Teresa Evangelisti • Armando Viano • Nicoletta Scaramozzino • Lella Sangiorgio • Isabell Domig • Mathias & Laura • Linda Giessauf • Anna Kopf • Krish Makhija • Farid Salame