1° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Opere Prime 1982
Processo a Caterina Ross
by Gabriella Rosaleva
The text of the film reproduces exactly the records of the trial that took place in Poschiavo-Brusio (Swiss Confederation) in 1697 against Caterina Ross, a 32-years-old farmer, of reformed religion, daughter and niece of the "strie" and accused of witchcraft herself. The trial was shot in an abandoned industrial shed close to a railway station. The part of the prosecution's witnesses was shot on the outside, in the mountains.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala – English translation Francesca Sala
Biography
film director
Gabriella Rosaleva
Gabriella Rosaleva (Besozzo, Varese, Italy, 1942) lives and works in Varese. The interest for painting was, for her, the first step towards cinema. In 1977 she enrolls in the cinema school in Milan. Processo a Caterina Ross (1982) is her debut feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Una Maria del ’23 (cm, 1979), Appunti per una leggenda sarda (cm, 1980), Trilogia (Cornelia, L’isola Virginia, La borsetta scarlatta, cm, 1980-1981), Processo a Caterina Ross (1982), I luoghi del rito: tre chiese a Torino (doc., 1983), Prima del futuro (coregia/codirectors Fabrizio Caleffi, Ettore Pasculli, 1985), La sposa di San Paolo (1990), Viaggio a Stoccolma (cm, 2017).
Declaration
film director
I make cinema because I love painting. The sign, the colour, the balance of the shapes are essential in my life. I love painting. Cinema thrills me, seduces me and raises me to life.
Gabriella Rosaleva
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala – English translation Francesca Sala
Cast
& Credits
Aiutoregia: Giovanni Barbieri.
Director of photography: Renato Tafuri (16mm, colore).
Fonici: Hubert Myhius, Pippo Ghezzi.
Editor: Anna Napoli.
Segretaria di edizione: Lella Lugli.
Cast and characters: Daniela Morelli (Caterina Ross), Massimo Sacilotto (voce del podest`).
Production company: M. Meucci, Emanuela Piovano per S.A.S. Cinema.