Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 35'


"Seven Years Are too Many is a work that I find hard to define. It is a long journey down the Tiber, but it is also an 'archeological' journey in the voice and the texts of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The theme that I worked on is the classic one of Pasolini: the end of history, posthistory, the new prehistory, and the happy apocalypse. I like to think of this film as the first episode of a 'trilogy of voices and rivers,' that I hope to finish as soon as possible." (Andrea Gropplero)

Biography

film director

Andrea Gropplero di Troppenburg

(Udine, Italy, 1963) is a director, producer, activist, gourmet, and cook known as Chef Guevara. In 2015, for the Istituto Luce he made Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero, presented at the 65th Berlinale, and Il cinecittario, a collection of 180 2-minute film clips and recipes. Two years later, always for the Istituto Luce and Sì produzioni, he shot Il colore della fatica and, that same year, Comunismo futuro. He and the philosopher Stefano Bonaga created and curate Lido Philo, encounters between film and philosophy that take place during the Venice Film Festival. He writes a regular column called Cinegourmet for the journal “8 ½.”  Over the many preceding years, he has made numerous shorts and documentaries, and produced various movies, including Mary (2005) by Abel Ferrara, Paris Dabar (2003) by Paolo Angelini, Elegia della vita - Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006) by Alexander Sokurov, and many other films that have won awards at numerous international festivals.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fallo! (1989), Aprile (1990), Passami il burro! (1990), Permesso di soggiorno (1991), Sette anni sono troppo lunghi (1993), Pidgin (1997), Kumbh-Mela 95 (1997), Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero (doc, 2015), Il colore della fatica (doc, 2019), Comunismo futuro (doc, 2017), Ok boomer (coregia con Gianfranco Pannone, doc, 2022).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Andrea Gropplero.
Director of photography: Gianni Araldo, Werter Germondari.
Music: Andrea Basevi.
Editor: Daniela Bassana.
Production company: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Roma, tel. +39-06-722941.
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