Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 30' x 14
Television programs about the 1969-78 decade of student ad worker struggle. The program is made up of 14 episodes in which many guests appear, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Oreste Scalzone, Franco Piperno, Massimiliano Fuscas, Bruno Trentin, Paolo Pietrangeli, Nuto Revelli, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Bruno Attilio, Mario Capanna, Nanni Balestrini, Emanuele Severino, Massimo Cacciari, Vincenzo Siniscalchi, Manlio Milani, Giannichedda, Mario Tommasini, Franca Rame, Daniele Marfori, Clara Sereni, Dario Fo, Alberto Grifi, Franco Battiato, and Giulio Einaudi.
"I set out to narrate events that for the most part had not been screened before. I tried not to interfere and to leave room for anyone who in any vague way had offered her or his contribution to the struggle of December 1968-78 for the formation of a new political and social consciousness. What impressed me the most in the streets, in the squares, in the universities, and in the factories was the gigantic wave of vital energy that got bigger and bigger until it took on the dimensions of an authentic collective event. This project comes out of the need for people to pay their due respect to period of our history that covers the decade 1969-78" (Silvano Agosti).
Biography
film director
Silvano Agosti
Silvano Agosti (Brescia, 1938) enrolled in 1960 at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome; his graduation film in 1962 was entitled La veglia. In 1963 he went to Moscow to specialize in editing and to study the work of Ejzens tejn. In 1967 Agosti debuted with the full-length film Il giardino delle delizie, from which the censors cut 28 minutes. After numerous "militant" documentaries, Agosti founded 11 Marzo Cinematografica, a cooperative which has produced all his films. From 1976 to 1978 he taught editing at the Centro Sperimentale. His movie-theater Azzurro Scipioni, in the Prati district, became a point of reference for art films. In 1983 he finished D'amore si vive, a film which focuses on tenderness, sensuality and love, which was shot in Parma over a two year time span. In 1984 he published the novel L'uomo proiettile. This book was followed by Uova di garofano, Il giudice, La ragion pura, La vittima.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il giardino delle delizie (Gardens of Delights, 1967), Cinegiornali del movimento studentesco (1968), N. P. il segreto (1971), Altri seguiranno (1973), Scerscev (1973), Brescia 1974 ( 1974), Matti da slegare (Fit to Be Untied, coregia/codirectors Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano
Rulli, 1975), Nel più alto dei cieli (In the Highest of Skies, 1977), La macchina cinema (1978), Album concerto (1979), Un incontro (1981), Il buffone di Dio (1981), Runaway America (1982), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984), D'amore si vive (1983), Quartiere (1987), Uova di Garofano (Sweet War, Farewell, 1992), Frammenti di vita clandestina (doc., 1993), L'uomo proiettile (1995), Trent'anni di oblio (1998), C'ero anch'io - Frammenti di lotte di strada (1998), La seconda ombra (2000), La ragion pura (The Sleeping Wife, 2001), Dario Fo - Un ritratto (2002), La conquista della vita (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, fotografia, montaggio: Silvano Agosti.
Assistente alle riprese: Alessandro Carpentieri.
Assistente al montaggio: Giuliana Zamariola.
Music: Nicola Piovani.
Production company: 11 Marzo Cinematografica, viale Giulio Cesare 128, 00192 Roma, tel. +39-06-37515350.
Assistente alle riprese: Alessandro Carpentieri.
Assistente al montaggio: Giuliana Zamariola.
Music: Nicola Piovani.
Production company: 11 Marzo Cinematografica, viale Giulio Cesare 128, 00192 Roma, tel. +39-06-37515350.