Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 30'


In 1992 Giuseppe Cederna was invited to become an observer by several non-governmental organizations that are active in the horn of Africa - Kenya, Sudan, and Somalia - which are among the countries most stricken by civil war and famine. During his trio he read Fever, a monologue written by the American writer, Wallace Shawn. Fever is the story of our difficult and contradictory relationship with the south of the world. In the story a man is stretched out on the floor of a bathroom of a hotel in a poor country. Shaken with the fear, he begins to tell the story of his life amid the cockroaches and vomit Images of revolutions and violence switch with memories of a privileged childhood. In 1993 Fever became a play and debuted at the Festival of Asti under the direction of Giorgio Gallione. As Fever toured the major Italian cities, it became a small project that offered (C.I.S.P. and A.M. R.E S. African Foundation for Research and Medicine).

Biography

film director

Giuseppe Baresi

Giuseppe Baresi (Milan, 1960) has been working since 1982 as director and cinematographer. He worked with Studio Azzurro until 1986. He worked as cinematographer for the documentaries produced by the school of architecture of the Milan Polytechnic University. His Questo radichio non si toca was screened in the Italian Spotting section of the 1998 Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Giuseppe Baresi: Brown Boveri (1985), I Murazzi del Po (cm, 1986), Ships' Lover (cm, 1987), Campania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Puglia, Calabria (doc, cm, 1987/1988), Civita (doc., cm, 1989), Fluxus - Milano poesia (1990), Italia '90/Lavori in corso (1990, regia collettiva), Uomini e onde (cm, 1991), Appunti sulle oasi, sull'acqua, sulle città di sabbia (cm, 1992), Lollas e Cresias (1993), La febbre (co-regia Giuseppe Cederna, 1994), Colore incanto (cm, 1995), Nothing is Real - Appunti sul Nirvana (co-regia Bruno Bigoni, 1996), Victor (cm, co-regia Franco Maurina, 1997), Sarajevo Hobocapajebo (1998), Questo radichio non si toca (co-regia Marco Paolini, 1998), Bestiario Veneto di Marco Paolini (co-regia Marco Paolini, 1999), Mnemo. Diario (1999), Ventiquattro cavalli bianchi (cm, 2000), Bestiario Italiano di Marco Paolini (2000, co-regia Marco Paolini), Dimmi che sono bella (cm, 2000), Made in Hong Kong (2000).

Giuseppe Cederna

Giuseppe Cederna (Rome, 1957) is a film and television actor. He has appeared in Enrico IV (Marco Bellocchio, 1982), Mamma Ebe (Carlo Lizzani, 1986), La famiglia and Capitan Fracassa (Ettore Scola, 1987 and 1990), Marrakesh Express and Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores, 1988 and 1990), Italia-Germania 4 a 3 (Andrea Barzini, 1990), Gangster (Massimo Guglielmi, 1992), and Per non dimenticare (Massimo Martelli, 1992). Recently he was leading actor in Anime fiammeggianti (Davide Ferrario, 1994) and Crollo (Felice Farina, 1994).

FILMOGRAFIA

La febbre (video, 1994).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Giuseppe Baresi, Giuseppe Cederna.
Director of photography: Giuseppe Baresi.
Music: Paolo Ciarchi.
Sound: Ruggero Manzoni.
Editor: Giuseppe Baresi, Paolo Soravia.
Cast: Giuseppe Cederna, Paolo Ciarchi.
Production company: Giuseppe Baresi e Giuseppe Cederna, corso Garibaldi 50, 20121 Milano, tel. +39-02-8051627, fax +39-02-8052534.
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