16° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Competition 1998 - Non Fiction

Il MAGNIFICO SETTE

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
by Paolo Pisanelli
Country: Italy
Year: 1998
Duration: 13'


"The actor Robert Vaughn" tells of his experience as a pistolero in the film, The Magnificent Seven. The film is interwoven with his life. He remembers the gunfights, the electro-shocks he was subjected to, and identifies the bandits among the patients in the asylum, Santa Maria della Piet` in Rome, where he is also a patient. He talks of actors, of cinema, of America, and of the West that is no more. At the end he reveals his identity as actor, director, nurse and psychiatrist.


"The Magnificent Seven is a chamber western, a fantastic narrative moved by the desire for adventure, love and social justice. This desire passes through the body and memory of the narrator and overcomes the pain of mental illness. To make yourself undergo the electric shock of the words provokes a short circuit between cinema and life" (Paolo Pisanelli).

Biography

film director

Paolo Pisanelli

Paolo Pisanelli (Lecce, 1965), a university architecture graduate (1993), earned a degree at the Experimental Film Center specializing in the photography program under Giuseppe Rotunno. He subsequently worked as photo reporter and as still set photographer for various theater and dance companies. Since 1995 he has concentrated on directing documentary films, which have been presented in various national and international festivals and have received numerous awards and great recognition. In 1998 he was one of the founding members of Big Sur, an independent cooperative for film production and communications workshop.

FILMOGRAFIA

In silenzio (1993), Nella prospettiva della chiusura lampo (1994), 10 calcoli infiniti (1998), Il magnifico sette (1998), N (1999), Where We Go (1999/2000), Roma A.D. 999 (2000), Roma A.D. 000 (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e fotografia: Paolo Pisanelli.
Sound: Gianluca Costamagna.
Editor: Letizia Caudullo.
Cast: Giuseppe Palladino.
Production company: Paolo Pisaneli - Big Sur, via Piagafetta 58, 00154 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-6-5754987, fax +39-6-5575689.

TFF

prizes

SPAZIO ITALIA COMPETITION 1998

First Prize

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