Mauro Russo Rouge

Director

Mauro Russo Rouge, born on September 24, 1979, in Castel San Giorgio, is an Italian director, screenwriter, producer, and cinematographer. He became known for his radical independent films, which are characterized by experimental imagery, extreme reduction, and uncompromising subject matter. His feature film debut, CENSURADO: ODE TO LOVE, was released in 2015 under his direction. The film was shown internationally at festivals and marked his entry into the feature film format. ABERRANTE followed in 2016, also directed by him, which won several awards at festivals in the USA, including the Texas Independent Film Festival. IRA – ZORN was made in 2018, also directed by Mauro Russo Rouge. The work premiered at the Denver Film Festival in the same year and was released in Italy by Mescalito Film in 2019. In 2019, his film C.L.A.B. (Calm Like A Bomb), which he directed himself, was released. The action film, which is completely without dialogue, tells the story of a man who avenges the murder of his girlfriend in one night. With these films, Mauro Russo Rouge established himself as an independent voice in European independent cinema. His works are characterized by a courage to experiment, visual harshness, and a break with classic narrative forms.

Films on Sooner

Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story

2021

88 mins

Documentary, Love & Sex

A middle-aged Italian couple run a pet store by day, but their secret life involves organizing wild sexual encounters by night.

Radiopornopanda

2022

81 mins

Documentary

Pandina and Pandone, creators of the Italian web-based, on-demand porn channel “Radiopornopanda”, turn a private passion into a public profession.

Bostik, La Bodega de D10S

2025

83 mins

Documentary

Meet Antonio Esposito, the legend behind the 'real tomb of Maradona' in Naples. A story of devotion, transformation, and football magic.

The Last Playboy

2023

84 mins

Biography, Documentary

70-year-old Maurizio Candidi, an old-style playboy who loves the high life, claims to have had sex with over a thousand women.

Calm Like a Bomb

2021

82 mins

Crime, Thriller

Mauro Russo condenses revenge, love and violence into a single night. What is there to say? Nothing. So this intense thriller is without dialogue.

Ira - Wrath

2019

83 mins

Crime, Independent

Ira translates to "wrath," but this feeling is barely voiced by the main characters, who live on the grim fringes of society.

Aberrante

2017

81 mins

Independent, Thriller

This psychothriller by Mauro Russo Rouge is a sordid escalation of physical and mental agony, torn between twisted visions and objective reality.

Censurado: Ode To Love

2015

77 mins

Independent, Thriller

A successful broker, haunted by disturbing flashbacks, embarks on night full of rampage, fornication.