Heads or Tails? (2025 film)
2025 film by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
Heads or Tails? (Italian: Testa o croce?) is a 2025 western film co-written and directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. It stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi, John C. Reilly, and Peter Lanzani. The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2025. It received a theatrical release in Italy on 2 October 2025.
Plot
In the early 1900s, Buffalo Bill visited Italy on a tour of his traveling Wild West Show, bringing the myth of American cowboys to Italy. During a show in Rome, he was challenged by Ercole Rupè, a local squire who ran a butteri club, who claimed his butteri were more skilled than Bill's cowboys. However, Rupè decided to bet on the American and asked his butteri to lose on purpose, but the talented Santino refuses and wins the challenge. Rupè is engaged to a charming young French woman, Rosa, whom he constantly abuses and insults. After winning the challenge and losing the bet, Rupè reaches out to Santino and witnesses him approaching Rosa.
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