Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 60'
This journey across the great plains hunting ground of North America in the territory of the Lakota people in search of what is left of their past pays witness to the hurt and forgetfulness of a still-open American wound. We see desolate, miserable Indian reservations next to the pleasant and well-ordered cities of the whites with attractions for tourists that have sprung up on the very Lakota land that was taken away from them by treaties mandated by the American government but never honored.
"I have always loved American Indians from what I read about them in history books for their sense of justice, generosity, culture, and courage as well as for the clarity of their spirituality despite unacceptable contradictions. Now I know that there is a people to whom I would entrust the fate of our planet - the native Americans" (Pit Formento).
Biography
film director
Pit Formento
Pit Formento has graduated in Film History in Parma. He's been making documentaries since 1983 and his works have been distributed in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and USA. He has won the First Prize at Festival del Documentario in San Benedetto del Tronto in 1988. Outside the documentary world, he has won the Solinas Award for Best Script in 1996 and, with a commercial, the AD Spot Award in 1997.
FILMOGRAFIA
La fine del sentiero di guerra (doc., 1983), Carnaval Creole (doc., 1984), Jazz Dancing (doc., 1986), Il volo del falco (doc., 1987), Around Noon (doc., 1988), Luce a cavallo (doc., 1989), Cercando Francesco (doc., 1992), Sul set della Genesi (doc., 1993), Canti d'infermità (doc., 1994), Maddalena (doc., 1995), Mungu ni mama (doc., 1996), Passaggio a Schio (doc., 1998), Ma come è cominciato tutto questo? (doc., 2000), Fred (doc., 2001), L'anno che il Senegal vinse il mondiale (doc., 2002), Due o tre cose che so di loro (doc., 2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e fotografia: Pit Formento.
Editor: Angelo Artuffo.
Sound: Laura Bettanin.
Production company: Traffic Film, via Gaetano da Thiene 6, 00151 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5835793, fax +39-06-5814934.
Italian distribution: GA&A, piazza Martiri di Belfiore 2, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3613480, fax +39-06-3614042, e-mail gaea@ gaea.it.
Editor: Angelo Artuffo.
Sound: Laura Bettanin.
Production company: Traffic Film, via Gaetano da Thiene 6, 00151 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5835793, fax +39-06-5814934.
Italian distribution: GA&A, piazza Martiri di Belfiore 2, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3613480, fax +39-06-3614042, e-mail gaea@ gaea.it.