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2016 film

Mister Universo
Film poster
Directed by	Tizza Covi Rainer Frimmel
Written by	Tizza Covi
Starring	Tairo Caroli
Release date	6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) (Locarno)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Austria Italy
Language	Italian

Mister Universo is a 2016 Austrian-Italian drama film directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2016 Locarno Festival and the 2016 Vienna International Film Festival where it won an award.

The film shows the everyday life of the slowly disappearing world of the circus with a cast of amateur actors. The winner of the 1957 Mr Universe competition, Arthur Robin, played himself in the film, as did a number of other members of the cast.

Plot

Tairo, a young circus liontamer, loses a lucky horseshoe charm that had been bent out of iron by strongman Arthur Robin, a former winner of the Mr. Universe competition. The horseshoe was given to Tairo when he was a child. After several things go wrong for Tairo and he becomes disenchanted with life, he goes on a search for Arthur Robin to ask him to make a new lucky horseshoe. Tairo reunites with many of his relatives as he searches for Robin, whom he eventually finds living with his wife in a caravan park in Milan.

Cast

Tairo Caroli
Wendy Weber
Arthur Robin
Lilly Robin

Awards

MehrWERT-Filmpreis der Erste Bank (Erste Bank’s MoreValue Film Award), Vienna International Film Festival, 2016.

References

"'Mister Universo': Locarno Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
"Toronto unveils City To City, World Cinema, Masters line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
Locarno Festival. Mr Universo. Retrieved 27 December 2019
Viennale. Mister Universo (OMDU). Retrieved 26 December 2019
Viennale archive, 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016

External links

Mister Universo at IMDb

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The Unsaid (2001) Bend It Like Beckham (2002) The Station Agent (2003) Electric Shadows / Moolaadé (2004) C.R.A.Z.Y. / Bab al-Makam (2005) The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) The Hard-Hearted / Slingshot (2007) The Shaft (2008) Les barons / My daughter (2009) Becloud / Beyond the Steppes (2010) Snowtown (2011) A Hijacking / Taboor (2012) La Piscina (2013) War / Chrieg (2014) Thithi (2015) Mister Universo (2016) The Chambermaid (2018) Last Visit / Mosaic Portrait (2019) Alma Viva / The Blue Caftan (2022)

Marrakech International Film Festival Jury Prize Award

The Unsaid (2001)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Station Agent (2003)
Electric Shadows / Moolaadé (2004)
C.R.A.Z.Y. / Bab al-Makam (2005)
The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
The Hard-Hearted / Slingshot (2007)
The Shaft (2008)
Les barons / My daughter (2009)
Becloud / Beyond the Steppes (2010)
Snowtown (2011)
A Hijacking / Taboor (2012)
La Piscina (2013)
War / Chrieg (2014)
Thithi (2015)
Mister Universo (2016)
The Chambermaid (2018)
Last Visit / Mosaic Portrait (2019)
Alma Viva / The Blue Caftan (2022)

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