Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 10'
There is a man who is crying at a street corner. It seemed to be entirely besides the point that it was a sunny day. He had never happened to see anything like that before. For this reason he could not take his eyes away. He wondered how a man could be reduced to such a state of desperation that he has lost all reserve.
Biography
film director
Francesco Patierno
(Naples, 1964) studied architecture before becoming the creative director of an advertising agency. He designed technical-scenographic sets, made TV reports for RAI, documentaries, video clips, and advertisements. His first short film Quel giorno participated at the Venice Film Festival and his first feature film Pater Familias (2002) at the Berlinale, in the Panorama section. In 2007, he directed Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca (The Early Bird Catches the Worm), in competition at Karlovy Vary, and the next year the series Donne assassine, in collaboration with Alex Infascelli. In 2011, with Cose dell'altro mondo (Things From Another World) he participated once again in Venice, as he did with the documentary La guerra dei vulcani (The War of the Volcanoes, 2012), dedicated to the love triangle between Rossellini, Magnani, and Bergman. After La gente che sta bene (People Who Are Well, 2014), he directed the documentary Naples ’44 (2017), presented at the Rome Film Fest and the winner of a Silver Ribbon. Always in 2017, DIVA! ha participated in Venice and won a Silver Ribbon for best documentary. In 2022, La cura, an adaptation of La peste by Albert Camus, participated at the Rome Film Fest.
FILMOGRAFIA
Quel giorno (cm, 1996), Pater familias (2003), Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca (2008), Donne assassine (tv, 2008), Cose dell'altro mondo (2011), La guerra dei vulcani (doc, 2012), La gente che sta bene (2014), Napoli ’44 (doc, 2016), Diva! (2017), Camorra (doc, 2018), Ready for The 30th Summer Universiade Napoli 2019 (cm, doc, 2019), La peste (2022), Svegliami a mezzanotte (doc, 2022), Improvvisamente Natale (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director and director of photography: Francesco Patierno.
Plot: liberamente tratto dal racconto Quel giorno di Renata Di Martino.
Screenplay: Aldo Barone, Francesco Patierno.
Editor: Vincenzo Gioitta, Stefania Trifoni, Alfredo Valle. Music: Gyórgy Ligeti.
Cast: Aldo Barone, Anna Calato, Lello Giulivo, Annalisa Amodio, Maurizio Bainco, Alessandro Capotorto, Armando Carino, Umberto Cevoli, Patrizia Di Martino, Renata Di Martino, Alessandra Di Somma, Raffaella Iliceto, Carmen Iovine, Pino L'Abbate, Crescenzo Mariani, Giuseppe Mastrocinque, Gigi Mendozza, Lucia Milite, Francesco Meucci, Luciano Nozzolillo, Giovanna Romano, Caterina Scalaprice, Giuseppe Schiavone, Marcella Vitello.
Production company: Alhambra Factory, via Raffaele Stasi 36B int. 3, 00189 Roma, tel. +390633263065, fax +3906-3725786.
Plot: liberamente tratto dal racconto Quel giorno di Renata Di Martino.
Screenplay: Aldo Barone, Francesco Patierno.
Editor: Vincenzo Gioitta, Stefania Trifoni, Alfredo Valle. Music: Gyórgy Ligeti.
Cast: Aldo Barone, Anna Calato, Lello Giulivo, Annalisa Amodio, Maurizio Bainco, Alessandro Capotorto, Armando Carino, Umberto Cevoli, Patrizia Di Martino, Renata Di Martino, Alessandra Di Somma, Raffaella Iliceto, Carmen Iovine, Pino L'Abbate, Crescenzo Mariani, Giuseppe Mastrocinque, Gigi Mendozza, Lucia Milite, Francesco Meucci, Luciano Nozzolillo, Giovanna Romano, Caterina Scalaprice, Giuseppe Schiavone, Marcella Vitello.
Production company: Alhambra Factory, via Raffaele Stasi 36B int. 3, 00189 Roma, tel. +390633263065, fax +3906-3725786.