1° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tematiche Giovanili 1982
Farsi uomo. Oltre la droga.
by Maricla Boggio
Country: Italy
Year: 1982
Duration: 100'
Split in two episodes (“L’accoglienza” and “L’arrivo in comunità terapeutica”), the film describes the hard process to reintegrate young addicts through the therapeutic program “Progetto Uomo” of the Centro Italiano di Solidarietà di Roma.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala - English translation Francesca Sala
Biography
film director
Maricla Boggio
(Turin, 1937) is an Italian author, playwright, and journalist. She received her law degree in Turin and another degree in directing with Orazio Costa – to whom she dedicated six books on miming methods in acting - from the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she became a professor of acting, acting theory and techniques, and drama. She began working in Rai in 1960 and in 1973 she founded the Teatro Femminista della Maddalena, for which she wrote and staged plays focusing on the condition of women, social distress in the suburbs, and the problem of drug addiction (to which she dedicated Farsi uomo - Oltre la droga, 1982, which was presented at the first Cinema Giovani festival).She has written over 70 plays, including “Santa Maria dei Battuti - rapporto sull’istituzione psichiatrica e sua negazione,” about the Basaglia project. The author of books on anthropology, fiction and non-fiction, she is the editor of the journal Ridotto. She is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
FILMOGRAFIA
Marisa della Magliana (doc, mm, tv, 1976), Rocco Scotellaro (sceneggiatura, mm, tv, regia di Maurizio Scaparro, 1978), Sono arrivati quattro fratelli (doc, mm, tv, 1979), L'assenza del presente: Il passato persistente - Il futuro inattuato (doc in due parti, tv, 1981), Farsi uomo, oltre la droga (doc in 5 parti, tv, 1982),Natuzza Evolo (doc, tv, 1985. coll. Luigi Lombardi Satriani), L'uomo e l'attore - Orazio Costa, lezioni di teatro (doc in 5 parti, tv, 1987), Come una ladra a lampo. La Madonna della Milicia. Sacro e profano (doc, tv, 1991, coll. Luigi Lombardi Satriani), Storie dallo Spallanzani (doc, tv, 1992), San Gennaro - Viaggio nell'identità napoletana (doc, allegato editoriale, 2014).
Declaration
film director
I think I was the only person who was hosted in a community, in Rome and Castel Gandolfo, even if I’m not an addict nor an operator. They accepted me as one of them. Together we decided first to write a book (Farsi Uomo. Oltre la droga, Bulzoni Editore, 1981) and then to shoot this film, with ways to face the expressive procedures. The “program”, which refers to don Mario Picchi, head of Ce.I.S., doesn’t expect to be the only chance to gain some results in releasing from drugs, but the set goal is above the wish of freedom from addiction.
The identification of the addict boy in the boy who’s finally free and helps his friend to get to know himself during the process of growth of his personality and the rebuilding through the knowledge of himself and of his own problems in talking to the others come to free from loneliness and distress, two of the first causes of the slavery of “shooting up”.
The question refers, above all, to the lack of love, to the frequent isolation of our society, which prevent the person from feeling alive and fulfilled.
The drug gives the ephemeral illusion of being an escape from all problems, but soon emptiness takes up mind and heart and destroys the man. One can be safe only when reflecting in someone else’s eyes.
The path is long, hard and complex, nobody gives you anything for free, a boy says during a “working group on feelings”.
But when you succeed, it’s an amazing victory, it’s the triumph of life. That’s what we tried to tell, following deeply the existence of those kids, during all of the phases. Nobody was afraid of showing even the hardest times, when it was necessary, someone even proposed to relive particularly thorny situations, which were essential to complete the description, to help those who are trying.
What came out, is a story of direct expressiveness, without the mediation of experts or any sort of simplification. A speech on the skin. But nothing was stolen, every scene was carefully evaluated, discussed, chosen.
For this reason, Farsi uomo. Oltre la droga can be not only a social need, but also a movie style and the television is the best media to show this double aim.
Maricla Boggio
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala - English translation Francesca Sala
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Maricla Boggio; consulenza: Luigi Maria Lombardi Sartriani.
Director of photography: Maurizio Dell'Orco (16mm, colori).
Music: Stefano Marcucci.
Suono (presa diretta): Alessandro Zanon.
Editor: Antonio Fusco.
Editing: Adriano Taloni.
Organizzazione generale: Albatros Cinematografica.
Director of Production: Giorgia Onofri.
Production company: RAI, Ricerca e Sperimentazione Programmi TV.
Hanno partecipato alle riprese come contributo a una concreta utilit` sociale Don Mario Picchi, Juan Corelli, Letizia Pappalardo, Vittorio Soana, Lucio Soave, Giovanni Casarosa e gli operatori, i ragazzi, le famiglie del programma terapeutico "Progetto Uomo" del Ce.I.S. Centro Italiano di Solidariet` di Roma.
Director of photography: Maurizio Dell'Orco (16mm, colori).
Music: Stefano Marcucci.
Suono (presa diretta): Alessandro Zanon.
Editor: Antonio Fusco.
Editing: Adriano Taloni.
Organizzazione generale: Albatros Cinematografica.
Director of Production: Giorgia Onofri.
Production company: RAI, Ricerca e Sperimentazione Programmi TV.
Hanno partecipato alle riprese come contributo a una concreta utilit` sociale Don Mario Picchi, Juan Corelli, Letizia Pappalardo, Vittorio Soana, Lucio Soave, Giovanni Casarosa e gli operatori, i ragazzi, le famiglie del programma terapeutico "Progetto Uomo" del Ce.I.S. Centro Italiano di Solidariet` di Roma.
