10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1992
Hotel Italia
by Francesco Ferrari
Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 18'30''
Hotel Italia tells of the arrival in Italy and in Umbria of a small group of Red Army soldiers. They are all Afghan war veterans whose lower limbs have been amputated. They have come to have their old and technologically outmoded prostheses replaced by artificial limbs of titanium and fiberglass. Twentytwo-yearold Sasha discloses that he lost both his legs because of a mine made in Italy.
Biography
film director
Francesco Ferrari
Director and screenwriter, Francesco Ferrari graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1986. He worked with Ennio De Concini during the 1989-90 season, when he wrote the screenplay to Dino Risi's Vita coi figli which won the 1991 Umbriafiction TV prize.
FILMOGRAFIA
Hotel Italia (video, 1992).
Declaration
film director
"Hotel Italia is a 'double' image. It takes issue with our country in relation to war and the issue of arms production. In addition it deals with the complex and contradictory relationships between soldiers and technology, between 'military duty' and human weakness. This forgotten war can be taken as an object lesson to be measured up against its disastrous aftermath." (Francesco Ferrari)
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Francesco Ferrari.
Director of photography: Piero Cadeddu, Manuel Notari, Giovanni Barchi.
Music: Dead Can Dance.
Sound: Piero Cadeddu.
Editor: Carla Benedetti.
Production company: Francesco Ferrari, via Del Verzaro 23, Perugia, tel. +39-075-5730928 Sirio Immagini e Servizi, via Andrea Del Castagno 86, Roma, tel. +39-06-5940489.
Director of photography: Piero Cadeddu, Manuel Notari, Giovanni Barchi.
Music: Dead Can Dance.
Sound: Piero Cadeddu.
Editor: Carla Benedetti.
Production company: Francesco Ferrari, via Del Verzaro 23, Perugia, tel. +39-075-5730928 Sirio Immagini e Servizi, via Andrea Del Castagno 86, Roma, tel. +39-06-5940489.