Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 90'


Piccoli orrori is a pocketdictionary film. It is a novelfilm interrupted right after the beginning; and then, every time it starts up again, it starts with a different title and another character. It is a littletourist-guideofItaly film. It is a film composed of many musical variations. It is a film like a fifteenthcentury polyptych, divided into several panels. Or, it is a fresco film divided into many areas and sections. Piccoli orrori is made up of "pieces" or parts or chapters (each has its own title), each of which tells the story of the extreme moment in an existence or in a path of a life and fixes this moment in its uniqueness and inability to be repeated… And everyday life always turns upside down into something extraordinary or exceptional. From Piedmont to Naples, through Rome, Sardinia, and Tuscany, the same actors return in different costumes.

Biography

film director

Tonino De Bernardi

(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Tonino De Bernardi.
Director of photography: Tommaso Borgstrom.
Editor: Fiorella Giovanelli.
Music: Ciro Buttari.
Sound: Filippo Ricci.
Cast: laia Forte, Anna Bonaiuto, Galatea Ranzi, Enrica Brizzi, Roberto De Francesco, Renata Palminiello, Gilda Postiglione, Ricardo Nespoli, Enrico Ghezzi, Giulietta De Bernardi, Veronica De Bernardi, Saverio Isola, Roberto Baffert.
Director of Production: Stefano Francia.
Produttore esecutivo: Massimo Cortesi.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Lontano Province Film, Strada S. Maria 2, 10020 Casalborgone (TO), Italy, tel. +390119174495.
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