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This film was loosely based on a true story of a kidnapped boy from Milan and the novella written about the incident.
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As the film is mainly told from a child's point of view, director Gabriele Salvatores instructed his director of photography Italo Petriccione to shoot most of the film at a child's height.
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Salvatores interviewed nearly 600 boys for the part of Filippo, ultimately settling for novice Giuseppe Cristiano, the son of a Fiat car worker.
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One scene breaks the realism in the movie: Michele is approaching the hole, and we can hear loud music and sounds of birds. When he climbs a fence, he yells "Shut up" (or something like that), and both the music and the birds stop at once, and the scene continues in silence.
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