On My Skin (2018) on Netflix
Rome, October 2009. Stefano Cucchi is taken to Regina Coeli prison after being found with hashish, cocaine and an epilepsy pill. His family is never allowed to visit him.
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Plot summary
Stefano Cucchi is a thirty-one-year-old building surveyor in Rome. On the evening of 15 October 2009 he is taken to Regina Coeli prison after being found with hashish, cocaine and a pill of epilepsy medicine, and placed there in preventive custody. Police officers beat him, and he goes on denying that he has been treated that way. He asks to choose a lawyer of his own and is given a public defender instead, and a judge rules that he must stay at Regina Coeli. His parents Giovanni and Rita and his sister Ilaria try to see him and are never let in.
Cast
- Elisa Casavecchiaas Giulia
- Aurora Casavecchiaas Giulia
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about On My Skin (2018)
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- The film's closing epilogue states that Stefano Cucchi was the 148th person to die in prison in 2009, and that the total number of deaths in prison that year was 172.
- In the first trial over Stefano Cucchi's death all the defendants were acquitted; after further investigation by the public prosecutor, on 10 July 2017 a judge indicted three Carabinieri for involuntary manslaughter and two others for slander and forgery of public documents.
- After Stefano Cucchi's death, his parents found over a kilo of hashish and 130 grams of cocaine in their son's apartment and reported it to the police straightaway.
- After Stefano Cucchi's death his sister Ilaria, his parents Rita and Giovanni and lawyer Fabio Anselmo fought for the truth, and in 2017 set up a non-profit organization in his name to defend citizens' human and civil rights.
