Biography Dox

Rustam Duloev, an opera singer also known as “Sergio Casanova”, has an athletic physique, a faraway gaze and something of a nineteenth century romantic air. He is a larger than life character with a thousand masks. He constantly travels between different continents, without a fixed abode or bank account. Sometimes a gigolo, sometimes a father and a family man, he considers himself an artist above all else. In Tajikistan he is a “great artist of the people”, in Italy he is known as an aspiring opera singer with an exotic Persian charm, in Hong Kong as “Sergio”, the Italian artist and dongiovanni who eats fresh crab for breakfast in a luxury high-rise hotel. The film tells the story of this man and his solitude, which is paradoxically crowded with a host of women, children, singing teachers and his creditors.