Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 5'


Paolo has a normal life. He comes back home after every day at work...
"Before you make a final judgment it is better to wait and see how it will end." (Mimmo Calopresti)

Biography

film director

Mimmo Calopresti

(Polistena, Reggio Calabria; 1955) is a director and screenwriter. His films have been presented at numerous national and international festivals, including those in Salsomaggiore, Montbéliard, Munich, Stuttgart, Turin, Barcelona, Madrid, Florence, Ferrara, and Cannes. He wrote a screenplay that won the 1994 Solinas award, which he used in the making of his first feature film, La seconda volta. The film premiered in competition at Cannes in 1995, just like the following La parole amore esiste (1998). He later continued his career by creating several other feature films - Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), L'abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019) - and more than twenty documentaries, many of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

A proposito di sbavature (video, 1985), Ripresi (cm, 1987), Fratelli minori (cm, 1987), Paolo ha un lavoro (doc., 1991), Paco e Francesca (doc., 1992), Remzjia (doc., 1992), 1943 La scelta (doc., 1994), 43-45 Pace e libertà (doc., 1994), Alla Fiat era così (doc., 1990), La seconda volta (1994), La parola amore esiste (1998), Tutto era la Fiat (doc., 1999), Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), Una bellissima bambina (cm, 2004), Dov’è Auschwitz (doc., 2005), Volevo solo vivere (2006), Torino è la mia città (doc, 2007), L'abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), L'Aquila 2009 - Cinque registi tra le macerie (ep, doc, cm, 2009), La maglietta rossa (doc, 2009), 1960 I ribelli (doc, cm, 2010), Uno al giorno (doc, cm, 2012), Madre di pietà (doc, cm, 2013), Socrates uno di noi (doc, 2014), Uno per tutti (2015), La fabbrica fantasma (doc, 2016), Immondezza - La bellezza salverà il mondo (doc, 2017), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019), Romanzo radicale (2022), Gianni Versace, l’imperatore dei sogni (doc, 2023).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Mimmo Calopresti.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli.
Editor: Dune.
Cast: Giorgio Boccassi.
Production company: DuneRai Sat, via Montemagno 15, 10132 Torino, Italy, tel. +39011837386.
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