TIBERIO MITRI Press kit INGLESE

They wave to him in the street and they respect him. Fulvia gives birth and falls
into depression. The life of a mother doesn’t suit her. Her desire to make her
mark takes hold of her once more. She goes back to being nervous, anxious
and to find any excuse to chastise Tiberio.
The quarrels return, along with the misunderstandings.
Mitri however is prepared to do anything he can to make his wife happy.
Anything, even organising a theatrical review so that people can get to know
Fulvia better and her audience can learn to appreciate what a great actress she
really is.
And so a show is produced starring the two of them. The boxer and the actress,
beauty and the beast, feminine grace versus male strength. With comedians
and dancers as backing.
(UN PUGNO UN BACIO) A PUNCH AND A KISS is the title of the review. And
the tour is extensive, with shows dotted throughout the Italian provinces, in
village theatres, travelling on uncomfortable trains.
Unexpectedly the review works, it’s a big success.
But Fulvia is not happy. She hears the applause when she walks on stage, and
the comments too, and they are all centred on her beauty, on her generous
shapes.
But when Tiberio walks on the applause is different, he is admired and loved.
He is Mitri, the champ, the one who fought toe to toe with Jake La Motta and
never hit the canvas, losing by a hair’s breadth, while she is just another
beautiful girl.
What Tiberio had intended as a loving gesture towards his wife soon turns out
to be another source of frustration for Fulvia.
A period of tension, quarrels and mutual betrayal begins.
Tiberio tries to find comfort in the arms of one of the dancers in the troupe and
can’t keep it hidden from Fulvia for too long.
But she knows that she is stronger than her husband, she knows that no other
woman can ever give him the thrills and the passion that she manages to instil
in him.
And she’s right, the poor dancer, madly in love with Tiberio, attempts suicide
when he goes back to his wife. The great champion, the man the crowds love,
can’t keep away from Fulvia, his feelings and his attraction for this woman are
too powerful.
Fulvia on the other hand doesn’t seem to be in the same predicament. As soon
as she is offered a part in a film the review suddenly loses its importance.
She’s not interested in the vagrant life of the theatre, she’s wants the cinema,
that’s all she’s every yearned for, everything else has been nothing more than a
stopgap.
The company disbands and the two of them return to Rome, she has to start
her film shoot and he now starts managing the bar he has opened with his
father in law.
While Fulvia works in film Tiberio decides to try his hand once more, he wants
to get back in the ring.