Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 19' 30''
Conversations with Diego on boxing, on life, and on the family. Diego is a young amateur boxer on the vigil of his first bout. His training is severe. His devotion to boxing is complete, and the way he looks at the world is ironic and hyper-realist at the same time. Then the day of the first match of his career arrives.…
"This is the promotional documentary for what is to become a film on the Italian B-division boxing championship - stories and narratives of the existential and athletic vicissitudes of the youths who find a chance of expressing their own personalities in the ancient art of boxing, even though they may be suffocated between the newer violent disciplines and moralist-pacifist extremism" (Franco Fornaris).
Biography
film director
Franco Fornaris
Franco Fornaris (Turin, 1953) studied archeology. He took part in various digs and research projects concerning the surface of the land in the Near and Middle East. Since 1991 he has been making documentary film. He also wrote a book and contributed to various Italian and English periodicals in the fields of art and culture. He is the editor of a series of travel books.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il sapore dei libri (1992-1993. ), A Day as Long as Italy (1993), Turin 1994 (1994), Instant Lives (1994) Ach, das Ferne Land (1994), Die Banalität der Neuen (1995), Lingotto (1996), Quell'anno sulle sponde dell'Arno (1996), Under Eastern Eyes (1995-1996) Operation Prison Gap: a Journey to the End of the Night (1996/97), Fuori i secondi! (1998).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Franco Fornaris
Plot: Franco Fornaris e Marco Ferro
Director of photography: Luciano Federici
Sound: Marco Ferro.
Editor: Milena Raviola.
Music: Pietro Mascagni, Sex Pistols.
Production company: Staff International, 19 via Figlie dei Militari, 10131 Torino tel. e fax +39-011-8195911; Esagono, 18 via Cesariano, 20100 Milano, tel.:+39-02-3450323
Plot: Franco Fornaris e Marco Ferro
Director of photography: Luciano Federici
Sound: Marco Ferro.
Editor: Milena Raviola.
Music: Pietro Mascagni, Sex Pistols.
Production company: Staff International, 19 via Figlie dei Militari, 10131 Torino tel. e fax +39-011-8195911; Esagono, 18 via Cesariano, 20100 Milano, tel.:+39-02-3450323