11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1993 - Fiction
IL TEMPO DEI SOGNI (UN FILM PER IL ROERO)
by Guido Chiesa
Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 20'
The ex-mayor of a little country village, now a patient in a nursing home, dreams that his death is coming up. The next morning he sets out on a walk through the woods and hills where he spent his life in order Io go to die in front of his own house. But, at the last minute, his grandson, Giovanni joins him, even though he doesn't want him to. Giovanni grew up on TV and the old man doesn't like him very much. During the walk both his grandson and the countryside have some unawaited surprises in store for him...
"The film was financed by the Roero Green-Safeguard Committee, dedicated to the protection and promotion of this area of Piedmont. However, no one asked us to make a commercial or an elegiac little sketch. The story could have taken place anywhere and we believe that the themes touched in the film - death, the intrinsic cruelty in nature, and the relationship between generations - go well beyond the borders of Roero." (Guido Chiesa)
Biography
film director
Guido Chiesa
Guido Chiesa (Turin, 1959) moves
to USA in 1983 where he works for Jim Jarmush, Amos Poe, Michael Cimino and
Nicolas Roeg. Back to Europe, in 1990 he directs his first long feature film,
Il caso Martello, winner of the Grolla d'Oro at the Mostra del Cinema in
Venice as best first work. His second long feature, Babylon, has won the
FIPRESCI prize at the Turin Film Festival. He has made some of the most
important historical documentaries in Italy, like: Partigiani, on the
memories and the meaning of Resistance in Italy; Nascita di una
democrazia, on the making of the Italian Constitution. In 2000, his Il
partigiano Johnny is screened at the Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica in
Venice.
FILMOGRAFIA
Give Me a
Spell (cm, 1985), Black Harvest (cm, 1986), Il caso Martello
(1991), Civiltà (cm, 1992), Il tempo dei sogni (cm, 1993),
Babylon (1994), Memorie da una fabbrica (1994), Torino in guerra:
1940-1945 (1995), 25 aprile: la memoria inquieta (1995), Quei
momenti eroici (1988-1995) (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (1995,
co-regia Davide Ferrario), Rane culatelli & lucciole: la pianura di
Bertolucci (1996), Ritratti d'autore: i fratelli Taviani (1996),
Partigiani (1997, co-regia Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti, Daniele
Vicari), Petali di candore Marlene Kuntz '96-'97 (1997), Nascita di
una democrazia (1997), Volare - La grande trasformazione (1998),
Un giorno di fuoco (1998), Una questione privata. Vita di Beppe Fenoglio (1998), Non mi basta mai (1999/2000, co-regia Daniele Vicari), Il
partigiano Johnny (2000), Provini per un massacro (2000), Alice è
in paradiso (2002), Sono stati loro. 48 ore a Novi Ligure (doc.,
2003).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Guido Chiesa.
Screenplay: Guido Chiesa, Antonio Leotti.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli, Marco Furlani.
Sound: Mario laquone.
Editor: Luca Gasparini.
Cast: Felice Andreasi, Stefano Davanzo, Soledad Cellerino, Giorgio Bocassi.
Production company: Brooklyn Film s.r.l., via Amerigo Vespucci 24, 00153 Roma, tel. +39-06-57300494, fax +39-06-57300520.
Screenplay: Guido Chiesa, Antonio Leotti.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli, Marco Furlani.
Sound: Mario laquone.
Editor: Luca Gasparini.
Cast: Felice Andreasi, Stefano Davanzo, Soledad Cellerino, Giorgio Bocassi.
Production company: Brooklyn Film s.r.l., via Amerigo Vespucci 24, 00153 Roma, tel. +39-06-57300494, fax +39-06-57300520.
