Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 29'


Bellissime is the trailer for a film that was never made. It is the history, in fragments, of Italian film from the postwar period to the end of the 1960's. More than that, it is the history of the dreams and hopes of the Italians, of their need to forget the pain, hunger, and misery and to build a better future. In the gestures, faces, and natural beauty of its divas, Italy rediscovers its bold will to live. The paths of postwar reconstruction and of the dreams of the Italians are both brightly lit by the light of these stars.

Biography

film director

Gian Piero Brunetta

Francesco Conversano

Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini (Italy), with their production company Movie Movie, have directed and produced over a hundred documentaries since 1980, participating to several renown national and international film festivals and receiving many awards. Their work is characterized by their research and experiments with different languages and narrative forms, which led them to choosing documentaries as the medium to tell the stories of our time. They won a David di Donatello in 2006 for Best Italian Documentary with Il bravo gatto prende i topi, in competition at CinemAmbiente. Over the last decade, the documentaries they directed explored the relationship between places and writing, global megalopolis, developing countries in Asia, the United States and the American way of life.

FILMOGRAFIA

Uno scrittore, una città (doc., 2001), Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia americana (tv, ep., doc., 2004), Buongiorno Cina (mm, doc., 2005), Nuove schiavitù (doc.), Taccuino indiano (mm, doc., 2006), Megalopolis (doc., 2008), Viaggetto sull’Appennino (mm, doc., 2009), Paesaggi con figure (doc., 2011), Muri (doc., 2012), Viaggetto nella pianura (doc., 2012), Muri (doc., 2012), La linea gialla. Bologna 2 agosto (doc., 2015), Ritorno a Spoon River (doc., 2015).

Nene Grignaffini

Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini (Italy), with their production company Movie Movie, have directed and produced over a hundred documentaries since 1980, participating to several renown national and international film festivals and receiving many awards. Their work is characterized by their research and experiments with different languages and narrative forms, which led them to choosing documentaries as the medium to tell the stories of our time. They won a David di Donatello in 2006 for Best Italian Documentary with Il bravo gatto prende i topi, in competition at CinemAmbiente. Over the last decade, the documentaries they directed explored the relationship between places and writing, global megalopolis, developing countries in Asia, the United States and the American way of life.

FILMOGRAFIA

Uno scrittore, una città (doc., 2001), Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia americana (tv, ep., doc., 2004), Buongiorno Cina (mm, doc., 2005), Nuove schiavitù (doc.), Taccuino indiano (mm, doc., 2006), Megalopolis (doc., 2008), Viaggetto sull’Appennino (mm, doc., 2009), Paesaggi con figure (doc., 2011), Muri (doc., 2012), Viaggetto nella pianura (doc., 2012), Muri (doc., 2012), La linea gialla. Bologna 2 agosto (doc., 2015), Ritorno a Spoon River (doc., 2015).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Gian Piero Brunetta, Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini.
Production company: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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