Like Sheep Among Wolves

{{Short description|2023 film}}

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| image = Like Sheep Among Wolves.jpg

| director = Lyda Patitucci

| screenplay = Filippo Gravino

| starring = Isabella Ragonese

| music = Ginevra Nervi

| cinematography = Giuseppe Maio

| editing = Giuseppe Trepiccione

| producer = Enrico Cerabino
Matteo Rovere

|distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2023}}

| country =

| language = Italian

| budget =

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Like Sheep Among Wolves ({{Langx|it|Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi}}) is a 2023 Italian crime-thriller film directed by Lyda Patitucci, at her feature film debut.

== Plot ==

Stefania is an undercover police officer who infiltrated an Italian-Serbian gang of criminals. She discovers the involvement of her brother Bruno, who recently got out of prison and whom she had not seen for years.

== Cast ==

Production

The film was produced by Matteo Rovere's company Groenlandia, with whom Patitucci often collaborated as second-unit director, notably in The First King: Birth of an Empire and Italian Race.{{cite news |last1=Meale |first1=Raffaele |title=Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi (2023) di Lyda Patitucci - Recensione |url=https://quinlan.it/2023/08/11/come-pecore-in-mezzo-ai-lupi/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Quinlan |date=11 August 2023 |language=it-IT}} It was shot in Rome, and had among its locations EUR, {{Interlanguage link|Villaggio Olimpico|it|Villaggio Olimpico (zona di Roma)}} and the Aniene river area. As to perform his role, Andrea Arcangeli lost 15 kilos.{{cite news |last1=Manca |first1=Mario |title=Andrea Arcangeli: «Quando il corpo si trasforma» |url=https://www.vanityfair.it/article/andrea-arcangeli-quando-il-corpo-si-trasforma |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Vanity Fair Italia |date=13 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}

Release

The film premiered at the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Harbor sidebar.{{cite news |last1=Vivarelli |first1=Nick |title=Rotterdam: Italy’s Lyda Patitucci on the Female Gaze in Atmospheric Noir ‘Like Sheep Among Wolves’ |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/rotterdam-lyda-patitucci-female-gaze-noir-like-sheep-among-wolves-1235506367/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Variety|date=31 January 2023}} It was released in Italian cinemas on 13 July 2023.{{cite news |last1=Bragadini |first1=Benedetta |title=Lyda Patitucci e ‘Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi’, un esordio da non perdere |url=https://www.rollingstone.it/cinema-tv/interviste-cinema-tv/lyda-patitucci-e-come-pecore-in-mezzo-ai-lupi-un-esordio-da-non-perdere/766925/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Rolling Stone Italia |date=15 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}{{cite news |last1=Barone |first1=Martina |title=Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi, recensione: con Isabella Ragonese |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.it/film/film-italiani/come-pecore-tra-i-lupi-la-recensione-isabella-ragonese-andrea-arcangeli-crime-lyda-patitucci/30664/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The Hollywood Reporter Roma |date=16 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}

Reception

For this film Isabella Ragonese was nominated for best actress at the 69th edition of the David di Donatello awards.{{cite news |last1=Ugolini |first1=Chiara |title=David di Donatello 2024, le candidature. ‘C’è ancora domani’ fa il record con 19 nomination |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2024/04/03/news/ddavid_donatello_2024_cortellesi_record_tutte_candidature-422415746/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=la Repubblica |date=3 April 2024 |language=it}}

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