14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Sacher Festival 1 - A Selection

VOCI DALLE CARTELLE (1852 1943)

VOICES FROM THE NOTES (1852 1943)

Country: Italy
Year: 1995
Duration: 13'


From the late nineteenthcentury clinical reports of the Roman insane asylum, Santa Maria della Piet`, four different stories of men and women, of doctors and judges, and of sentences and condemnations. These are stories of lives that find voices and images to come out of the archives and become four stories.

Biography

film director

Paolo Boccara

Paolo Boccara (Turin, 1955) lives and works in Rome. He has worked as a psychiatrist since 1981, including six years at Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome. At present he directs a Mental Health Center on the outskirts of Rome. He is an associate member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis.

FILMOGRAFIA

Voci delle cartelle (1995), Io e Marcella (1997), Biglietto di andata (1998).

Giuseppe Riefolo

Giuseppe Riefolo (Barletta, 1957) works in Rome as a psychiatrist, where he directs a Mental Health Center. He has worked on the history of psychiatric institutions and particularly, Santa Maria della Pietà, a Roman psychiatric hospital founded around 1500.

FILMOGRAFIA

Voci delle cartelle (1995), Io e Marcella (1997), Biglietto di andata (1998).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia e scenografia: Paolo Boccara, Giuseppe Riefolo.
Plot: Giuseppe Riefolo.
Editor: Paolo Boccara.
Voice: Simona De Simone, Giorgio Fugazza, Andrea Gaddin.
Production company: Paolo Boccara, Giuseppe Riefolo, c/o Paolo Boccara, via Citt` di Castello 13, 00191 Roma, tel. +3906-3330587, fax +39063330256.
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