Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 14'
The last day in the life of Antonio Pintore, the first man to be condemned to death in Sardinia during the Fascist era.
Biography
film director
Salvatore Mereu
Salvatore Mereu (Dorgali, Nuoro, Italy, 1965), after studying at DAMS and the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, directed a number of shorts and, in 2003, his first feature film, Ballo a tre passi, which received an award at the International Critics Week at the 60th Venice Film Festival, as well as a David di Donatello for best new director. His next movie, Sonetàula, participated in the Panorama section of the 2008 Berlinale and won three Golden Globes, including the Foreign Press Grand Prize. Tajabone (2010), which he made after a teaching project with students of two middle schools in Cagliari, was presented at the 67th Venice Film Festival, as was Bellas mariposas, which competed in the Orizzonti section in 2012. He founded the production company Viacolvento in 2006.
FILMOGRAFIA
Prima della fucilazione (cm, 1997), Miguel (cm, 2000), Ballo a tre passi (2003), Il mare (cm, 2005), Sonetàula (2008), Tajabone (2010), Bellas mariposas (2012), Transumanza (cm, 2013), La vita adesso (cm, 2013).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Salvatore Mereu.
Screenplay: Salvatore Mereu, Luca Pellegrini.
Plot: tratto da Lettere a Fanni di Salvatore Mannironi.
Director of photography: Nicolas Franik.
Art director: Dimitri Capuani.
Editor: Fulvio Molena.
Music: coro di Nuoro.
Sound: Antonio Ricossa.
Cast: Ivano Marescotti, Fausto Siddi, Flavia Casana, Massimo Sarchielli.
Production company: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Roma, tel. +3906-722941, fax +39067211619.
Screenplay: Salvatore Mereu, Luca Pellegrini.
Plot: tratto da Lettere a Fanni di Salvatore Mannironi.
Director of photography: Nicolas Franik.
Art director: Dimitri Capuani.
Editor: Fulvio Molena.
Music: coro di Nuoro.
Sound: Antonio Ricossa.
Cast: Ivano Marescotti, Fausto Siddi, Flavia Casana, Massimo Sarchielli.
Production company: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Roma, tel. +3906-722941, fax +39067211619.
