Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 26'
A group of children aged 13 to 16 live on the outskirts of Rome. Lorenzo is the smallest, and is often left out on the edge of the group. One day, in an effort to put himself in the spotlight, he decides to invent the news that Maurizio, a friend of all of them who is in bed with the flu, has cancer. [mp]
Biography
film director
Gianni Zanasi
Gianni Zanasi (Vignola, Modena, Italy, 1965), after studying philosophy at the University of Bologna, enrolled at a theatrical writing school and took a film course directed by Nanni Moretti. He then attended the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome, where he received his filmmaking degree in 1992. Three years later, he debuted with Nella mischia, selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. He then directed Fuori di me (1999), and A domani (1999), which was presented in competition in Venice. His 2004 documentary La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima received a Special Mention in Venice, where he later presented Non pensarci (2007), subsequently developed into a TV series. The Torino Film Festival presented La felicità è un sistema complesso (2015) in last year’s edition.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le belle prove (cm, 1992), Nella mischia (1995), A casa per le elezioni (cm, doc., 1996), A domani (1999), Fuori di me (1999), La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima (doc., 2004), Padri e figli (ep., tv, 2005), Non pensarci (2007), Non pensarci (ep., serie tv/tv series, 2007), La felicità è un sistema complesso (2015).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Gianni Zanasi.
Screenplay: Lorenzo Favella, Gianni Zanasi.
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: César Meneghetti.
Sound: Marco Tidu.
Cast: Simona Caparrini, Lorenzo Viaconzi, Emiliano Cipolletti, Andrea Proietti, Marco Adamo, Alessandro Anselotti.
Production company: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Screenplay: Lorenzo Favella, Gianni Zanasi.
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: César Meneghetti.
Sound: Marco Tidu.
Cast: Simona Caparrini, Lorenzo Viaconzi, Emiliano Cipolletti, Andrea Proietti, Marco Adamo, Alessandro Anselotti.
Production company: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.