SmoKings (2014)

Name: SmoKings
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-10-18

1h 41m

Running Time

Plot.

The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people would buy cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and Lucky Strikes online. When sales reached over one hundred million, "Big Tobacco" started to fight the "Little Guys" and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down.

Where to Watch.

Rent

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Cast & Crew.

Michele Fornasero

Director

Simone Catania

Producer

Giorgio Giampà

Composer

Paolo Ferrari

Cinematographer

Jesper Osmund

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
October 18, 2014

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 41m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2023-11-08

This Movie Is About.

capitalism

documental

Wiki.

SmoKings is a 2014 documentary film directed by Michele Fornasero.The film, produced by Indyca in co-production with Ventura Film (CH) and association with Majade Filmproduktion (DE), tells the story of the company Yesmoke (dedicated first to the online sale and then to the production of cigarettes) and the various traverses faced by the two owners, the brothers Carlo and Gianpaolo Messina.Its realization, which took four years of work, was supported by Regione Piemonte, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Piemonte Doc Film Fund and Programa Media Unione Europea.It was the winner of the 2014 edition of the Festival of Peoples in the section Premio Cinemataliano.info.