Zappaterra
Soil Tiller
Italy 2002 (Betacam, 28', col.)
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio: César Meneghetti, Elisabetta Pandimiglio.
Cast: Margherita Ianelli.
Produzione, distribuzione: Nanni Moretti e Angelo Barbagallo per Sacher Film, viale della Piramide Cestia 1, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5745353 e +39-06-5744725.
Margherita Ianelli is a semi-illiterate farmwoman from Marzabotto who has gone back to school to learn how to write at the age of eighty. She runs through her memories to re-evoke a painful page in Italian history ñ the Nazi-Fascist massacres in the Apennine regions around Bologna in the fall of 1955.
"Margherita is a courageous woman who has conserved her extraordinary gift of irony. While talking about some tragic event, she often switches topics to some other curious episode or recites some one-liner. In this way she reveals her instinctive attitude that prevented her from sliding into a kind of self-pity and rhetoric. This documentary tried to find its rhythm in this delicate balance. Margherita's was an existence that was tied in from her very childhood with those hard moments when personal tragedy is tightly interwoven with collective tragedy." (C.Meneghetti, E.Pandimiglio).
Elisabetta Pandimiglio
Elisabetta Pandimiglio, born in Rome, is a writer and author of theatre
plays. She is film and TV Director. She has been working for European
Community, Rome City Council and Lazio region, making a series of
documentaries on women and social difficulties. In 2001 she published
the book Ilia di notte.
FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Riso, fagioli e pastasciutta (1993), No Limite
do Tempo (1994), Sotterranei (1995), Punti di vista (cm, 1996),
Interferenze (1998), Blue, Blu (cm, 2000), Senza terra (2001), A sud del
sud (cm, 2001), Zappaterra (cm, 2002), Cachorro Louco (cm, 2002), Cani rabbiosi (cm, 2004), Motoboy (doc, 2004).
