Leone Jacovacci, born in Angola of a Congolese princess and an Italian engineer. Black boxer during the time of fascism. At 25 he won the European title of middleweight. From that moment began his ordeal, hindered by the fascist regime. The rest of his life he lives as a doorman in an apartment building in Milan.
How much of the life of Leone Jacovacci is in the eyes and sweat of girls and boys from the Italian suburbs? There, in the gyms where punching bags are punched with anger and elegance? Between the streets and the parks where a new culture is born, mixture of ethnic groups united under the blows of a barrage of Jab, while the new fascisms insinuate themselves in the words and looks of people?
After Sid - Fin qui tutto bene, Cubo Teatro and Alberto Boubakar Malanchino (UBU 2023 award for best actor under 35), give voice to the life of Leone Jacovacci, and through his story, they tell the Italian suburbs and provinces in a participatory process involving young boxers.
We talk about it with the editorial staff of Scomodo, the actor Alberto Boubakar Malachino, Girolamo Lucania, director of the show and director of Cubo Teatro in Turin and other guests invited to tell and dialogue on the role of popular boxing arenas in the Italian suburbs.
Friday 17 January at 19
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