14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1996 - Fiction
GLI OCCHI APERTI
by Angelo Ruta
Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 14'
An Italian television team is returning from a trip involving a news report on the war in exYugoslavia. They meet Goran, a boy who has visions. Goran says that he has seen a apparitions of the Madonna. The three journalists of the news team are attracted by the chance to make an extraordinary report and convince the boy to take them to the place where the apparitions take place. It is a little isolated hamlet completely destroyed by bombings. Here is a shadow that appears among the ruins. This shadow brings to mind, as in a cliché, the image of the Madonna. It is a young woman victim of the war, who points a large-caliber pistol and does not hesitate to kill and rob the three journalists with the help of Goran.
Biography
film director
Angelo Ruta
Angelo Ruta (Ragusa, 1967) lives and works in Milan. He attended the Advanced Course in Illustration and Comic-Book Art in Milan. He graduated the Brera Fine Arts Academy, specializing in set design. His works have been put on exhibition in various Italian and foreign cities (Bologna, Tokyo, Nishinomiya City, Kurashiki City, Trieste, Padua, Bari, Enna, San Miniato, and Genoa). For the last several years he has contributed to various periodicals and collaborated with publishers. He co-directed the medium-length film Epitaffio, along with A. Brusaferri, C. Cipelletti, and M. Strambrini. His short film Gli occhi aperti won the first prize in the Italian Space competition at the 1996 Turin Film Festival. Finally, he is an acrobat at the Medrano circus, where his specialities are the triple somersault without a net and the arched back spin.
FILMOGRAFIA
Epitaffio (mm, co-regia, 1993), Gli occhi aperti (cm, 1996), Animali felici (1998).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Angelo Ruta.
Director of photography: Sergio De Feudis.
Art director: Totoy Santoro.
Editor: Carlotta Cristiani.
Music: The Klezmatics.
Sound: Digital Group.
Cast: Pasqualino Pasella, Carla Chiarelli, Fabio Mazzari, Lello Cassinottì.
Production company and Italian distribution: HDH Communications, via San Calimero 14, 20122 Milano, tel. +39025830996558305949, fax +3902407158958309965.
Co-production: Digital group, via Pecchio 6, 20131 Milano, tel. +390229522605, fax +39229522530.
Director of photography: Sergio De Feudis.
Art director: Totoy Santoro.
Editor: Carlotta Cristiani.
Music: The Klezmatics.
Sound: Digital Group.
Cast: Pasqualino Pasella, Carla Chiarelli, Fabio Mazzari, Lello Cassinottì.
Production company and Italian distribution: HDH Communications, via San Calimero 14, 20122 Milano, tel. +39025830996558305949, fax +3902407158958309965.
Co-production: Digital group, via Pecchio 6, 20131 Milano, tel. +390229522605, fax +39229522530.
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