VENICE 2024 Giornate degli Autori
Giovanni Dota • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward
"A bet that's born of boredom and also a little bit out of spite"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica
VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks to us about his second feature, set entirely in a Naples hospital where, one night, two nurses bet on whether a patient will live or die
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Neapolitan director Giovanni Dota talks to us about his second feature, High Stakes - A Night in the Ward [+see also:
interview: Giovanni Dota
film profile], set entirely in a Naples hospital where, one night, two nurses bet on whether a patient will live or die. The dark comedy has been presented in Venetian Nights in the 21st Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.