The story of the dazzling scene of atypical musicians of the early years of the Charlie Bird, an over-the-top Turin jazz pub.
A Sleeping Dog is a film about jazz and the people who make it.
A bunch of people who are neither rich nor famous at all.
In fact, they are quite shy and apparently normal, and you will hardly recognize them on the street or at the supermarket.
On their path, inevitably, they encountered the demon of music and they live in it, at the top of their priorities, without ever wanting to force it into a space, nor define it within words.
A fluid, mobile and undefined genre, jazz, which believes only in the present and in itself.
They, our musicians, follow the music without asking life where it is taking them.
A Sleeping Dog He looks beyond the last note and tries to tell what, in that lump of instruments and men, generated the magic.
Actually this is not a documentary about magic, it's a documentary about miracles.
This documentary is a testimony of love towards those who dedicate a good part of their lives to this ephemeral and almost useless exercise and obtain from it (only) smoke and magic for themselves and others.
