Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 41'20''
Pietro Germi is one of the most important and extraordinary Italian film directors active from the post-war period to the 1970's. His personality and art are discussed by actresses such as Stefania Sandrelli, Franca Bettoja and Claudia Cardinale; directors such as Mario Monicelli, Otar Iosseliani, Daniele Luchetti, Giuseppe Tornatore and Paolo Virzì; screenwriters like Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Tullio Pinelli and Leo Benvenuti; and by many other friends and coworkers. The black and white images, which have never been screened before, are taken from an amateur film shot on the set of Uomo di paglia.
Biography
film director
Mario Sesti
Mario Sesti (Messina, Italy, 1958) is a film critic and a documentary filmmaker. He directed, among others, The Lost Ending (2003), La voce di Pasolini (2005, codirected with Matteo Cerami), and the recent La voce di Berlinguer (2013, made with Teho Teardo). He managed the project Cinema Forever from 1998 to 2000, working on restoring several masterpieces of Italian cinema. He collaborated for thirteen years with the magazine “L’Espresso,” and he published biographies on filmmakers likes Nanni Moretti and Pietro Germi. He also wrote some thorough analyses of new Italian cinema and police movies, winning the Diego Fabbri Award in 2008 for In quel film c’è un segreto (published by Feltrinelli). In 2012 he started directing the Taormina Film Festival and he is one of the founding members and curators of the Rome Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’ultima sequenza (doc., 2003), La voce di Pasolini (coregia Matteo Cerami, doc., 2005), Fiamme di Gadda. A spasso con l’ingegnere (doc., 2013), La voce di Berlinguer (coregia Teho Teardo, doc., 2013), Senza Lucio (doc., 2014); La voce di Fantozzi (doc., 2017), Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema. Bernardo Bertolucci: No End Travelling (doc., 2019), Mondo sexy (doc., 2019), Altri padri (2021).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Mario Sesti.
Assistenti alla regia: Carlo Durante, Massimo Galimberti.
Fotografia, montaggio e suono: Michele Soffientini.
Cast: Lidia Bancio, Leo Benvenuti, Franca Bettoja, Alfredo Bini, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Ennio De Concini, Mirta Guarnaschelli, Otar Ioseljani, Enrico Lucherini, Daniele Luchetti, Lino Miccichè, Mario Monicelli, Sergio Montari, Aiace Parolin, Tullio Pinelli, Aldo Puglisi, Carlo Rustichelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Silvestri, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Paolo Virzì, Giuseppe Tornatore, Nino Zanchin.
Production company: Mario Sesti, c/o Mediaset, via Aurelia Antica 422, 00165 Roma, tel. +39066639016, fax +3906-66390510.
Assistenti alla regia: Carlo Durante, Massimo Galimberti.
Fotografia, montaggio e suono: Michele Soffientini.
Cast: Lidia Bancio, Leo Benvenuti, Franca Bettoja, Alfredo Bini, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Ennio De Concini, Mirta Guarnaschelli, Otar Ioseljani, Enrico Lucherini, Daniele Luchetti, Lino Miccichè, Mario Monicelli, Sergio Montari, Aiace Parolin, Tullio Pinelli, Aldo Puglisi, Carlo Rustichelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Silvestri, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Paolo Virzì, Giuseppe Tornatore, Nino Zanchin.
Production company: Mario Sesti, c/o Mediaset, via Aurelia Antica 422, 00165 Roma, tel. +39066639016, fax +3906-66390510.