Original Title : L'intuzione di Kupin
Time : 110 Min
Genre : Drama, Psychological, Fantasy, History
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2026
Director : No data available
Writer : No data available
Producer : No data available
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : Italy
Original Language : Italian
About : “Kindness shouldn't be a pathology, but in our times it seems so!”
In a late 19th century setting with gothic and fantastic features, Ègide Kupin is the most brilliant and visionary inventor of his century. With an extraordinary intellect, he is afflicted by involuntary and uncontrollable "outbursts of kindness," which make him kind and affable towards everyone, even in the face of criminals, detractors, and enemies. As a result, everyone has learned to take advantage of his generosity and cordiality. Because of this, Ègide becomes embittered.
In the City of Inventors, where ideas, discoveries, and inventions are dedicated to scientific and technological progress, Ègide creates marvelous inventions but never puts them into production: the world doesn't deserve his genius. Instead, he exploits the loopholes in the Official Patent Regulation, accusing anyone who produces similar or identical inventions to his secretly patented ones, earning more from compensation than he would from producing and selling them.
With the help of Alina, his astute housekeeper, and under the guidance of Lawyer Dalmasia, Kupin executes his plan, filing and winning hundreds of lawsuits. He becomes the most feared inventor of the century, earning the title of "usurer of ideas."
But the arrival of Mario Cardì, a young and sharp inventor who sees Kupin as a master to surpass, sparks an intense competition between the two in terms of inventions and patents. While Cardì achieves legal victory, Kupin retains intellectual supremacy.