Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 52'
A trip along the peninsula from Foggia to Turin during the summer tomato campaign - from their picking to the rite of preserving them. The Italian landscape teetering between the old and the new is animated by truck farmers in an economic crisis, improbable local television hosts, small and ambitious tomato businessmen, and immigrants from the south who are still nostalgic for their homeland.
"Tomatoes is a little trip in the Italy of today. Carlo Cresto-Dina and I conceived it and prepared it. We looked for stories of lives that have been led which may be simultaneously emblematic and representative of an Italy that is making an effort to change in the era of the global market. I would like the viewers to catch one thing in this documentary - the affectionate look with which we have attempted to tell the story of the so-called common people" (Gianfranco Pannone).
Biography
film director
Gianfranco Pannone
(Naples, Italy, 1963) graduated in film from Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; he lives and works in Rome. His documentaries have participated and received awards at many festivals in Italy and abroad, and have also been broadcast on major European television channels. His works from the 1990s include Piccola America, Lettere dall’America, and L’America a Roma (which compose the Trilogia dell’America), and Latina/Littoria (2001, best documentary at the Torino Film Festival), followed by Io che amo solo te (2004), Il sol dell’avvenire (Red Sunrise, 2008), ma che Storia… (2010), Ebrei a Roma (2012), Sul vulcano (2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Lascia stare i santi (Leave the Saints Alone, 2016), Mondo Za (2017), and Scherza con i fanti (2019).He is a professor and coordinator of directing for the Master's degree in Film and Television at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, and he runs the documentary film laboratory at the DAMS of Roma Tre University. He also collaborates as a professor of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
La giostra (cm, 1989), Vacanze d'Egitto (cm, 1990), Piccola America (doc, 1991), Kenya (doc, 1995), Lettere dall’America (doc, 1995), Romani - Storie di normale integrazione (doc, 1996), Ritorno a Littoria (doc, 1996), La dama bruna - Gli ultimi giorni di Ciano (doc, 1997), Ombre del sud (1997), L’America a Roma (doc, 1998), Le leggi dimenticate (doc, 1998), Kelibia-Mazara (coregia con Tarek Ben Abdallah doc, cm, 1998), La guerra di Anna (doc, 1999), Così vicini, così lontani (1999), Pomodori - Viaggio nell’identità italiana (doc, 1999), Ferie - gli italiani e le vacanze (doc, cm, 2000), Sirena operaia (doc, 2000), Ferie: gli italiani e le vacanze (2000), Viaggio intorno alla mia casa (doc, 2000), Cerimonie: gli italiani, la Chiesa, lo Stato (2001), Latina/Littoria (doc, 2001) Venezia, la città che affonda (coregia con Marco Visalberghi, doc, 2001), Toscana: lungo il fiume (doc, 2002), Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (doc, 2004), 100 anni della nostra storia (coregia con Marco Simon Puccioni, doc, 2006), Cronisti di strada (doc, tv, 2007), Il sol dell’avvenire (doc, 2008), Immota manet (doc,cm, 2009), Ma che Storia... (doc, 2010), Silvio, One of Us (coregia collettiva, doc, 2011), Ebrei a Roma (doc, 2012), Scorie in libertà - L’incredibile avventura del nucleare in Italia (doc, 2012), Sul vulcano (doc, 2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (doc, 2015), Con Ugo (doc, cm, 2017), Lascia stare i santi (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2017), Gli altri (doc, cm, 2018), Mondo Za (doc, 2018), Scherza con i fanti (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2019), Campo 67 (doc,cm, 2020), Dell’acqua e del tempo (doc, 2020) Onde radicali (doc, 2021), Via Argine 310 (2022), Ok boomer (coregia Andrea Gopplero di Troppenburg, doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Gianfranco Pannone.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Gianfranco Pannone, Carlo Cresto-Dina .
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: Gianluca Quarto.
Sound: Fabio Santesarti, Marco Fiumara.
Music: Ambrogio Sparagna.
Production company: Videa documentary, via Livigno 50, 00188 Roma, tel. +39-06-331851, fax +39-06-33679484. CoProduction company: RAI, ZDF, Arte, AVRO.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Gianfranco Pannone, Carlo Cresto-Dina .
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: Gianluca Quarto.
Sound: Fabio Santesarti, Marco Fiumara.
Music: Ambrogio Sparagna.
Production company: Videa documentary, via Livigno 50, 00188 Roma, tel. +39-06-331851, fax +39-06-33679484. CoProduction company: RAI, ZDF, Arte, AVRO.