Winner of the Golden Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival, Two Friends follows the lives of Nunzio, a gentle, naive factory worker stricken with a chronic cough and subsequently laid off, and his friend Pino, a cold, shady character. When Nunzio begins to court and fall in love with a beautiful young woman, Pino refuses to work in order to help his ill friend. This action subsequently gets him into significant trouble with the Mafia. At the end of Two Friends, Nunzio and Pino seal their friendship in a spectacular getaway to a new life and new levels of friendship. The music of Andrea Morricone and the unreal pop cinematography of Blasco Giurato exquisitely complement this story of two unlikely heroes. Co-directed by Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli, with witty dialogue written by Scimone, the overall combination of these beautiful blends gives us a series of emotion that is anything but banal. (Film Description courtesy of Yvonne P. Behrens, AFI Fest 2003)