Dedalo & Dharma. Escape from Kazan Cinema

Adventure

“It’s love that makes the impossible possible,”and now they’re connected… and in trouble!


It’s a summer evening when, without even realising it, Dharma comes out of the cinema screen to escape certain death and meet that very spectator, Dedalo, who comes to the Kazan Cinema every single day to see her.
Dedalo is thirteen and has an unbridled passion for films and Dharma, his age, is a character who escaped a destiny which, like that of all the characters, always repeats itself in “The Rindwalker”: the most anticipated Hollywood film of the season.
What seems like the beginning of a surreal and romantic idyll is in fact only the premise of a bigger, daring story, full of dangers. Because Dharma is “only” a character and absolutely has to return to the film. To do so, both will have to abandon reality and dive into the cinemaverse: a parallel and complex universe where all cinematic stories are connected to each other..

  • An ironic, funny writing style with short chapters and intense action.
  • Characters you can empathise with, teenage love, the power of friendship and above all the love of cinema and stories.
    Beautiful illustrations reproducing the posters of the films the protagonists travel through.
Publisher: Mondadori
Target: 10+
Year: 2023
Author
Manlio Castagna

A screenwriter, director, writer and film critic, Manlio Castagna has also been involved in the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival for more than 20 years. He made his debut in children’s fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), which has been translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored many different genres: from historical fantasy with La notte delle malombre (The Night of the Malombre) and Draconis Chronicon, to horror with Goodwill and Le Belve (The Beasts), passing through the “story” of cinema with the manual 116 film da vedere prima dei 16 anni (116 Films To See Before You’re 16) and the novel Dedalo & Dharma, up to social noir with Barriera (all for the Mondadori group). La reincarnazione delle sorelle Klun (The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters) and Prova a non dormire (Try Not to Sleep) are his adult fiction books. In 2022, he made his film debut as a director and screenwriter with “Il viaggio degli eroi”, produced by Rai Cinema and rewarded with record audience numbers on Rai1.

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