Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 97'
Three experiences about women in three different time periods. The problem for all the protagonists is the same — the difficult coexistence of their work and private lives. Stella is a peasant woman at the end of the 1940s. She has three children and is working very hard to buy a piece of land. Sonia is a student from Milan in the early 1970s who has won a scholarship to study i Rome. Silvia and her husband work in a mail order house. She is a telephone operator and he is head of a department.
«It is always problematic for women to have their emotional lives coexist with their work. They can manage; but it costs, and the price to pay is always higher than the one men pay under the same circumstances» (Piergiorgio Gay).
Biography
film director
Piergiorgio Gay
Piergiorgio Gay (Turin, 1959) is one of the first associates of Ipotesi Cinema, founded by Ermanno Olmi and Paolo Valmarana at Bassano del Grappa in 1982. He worked as assistant director for Ermanno Olmi, Maurizio Zaccaro and Michele Placido, with whom he wrote the screenplay for Un eroe borghese. He has shot several documentaries and is active in advertising. He presented his feature film Tre storie, co-directed with Roberto San Pietro, at the 1998 Torino Film Festival, where it won the Nestle prize for distribution.
FILMOGRAFIA
La faccia nascosta della luna (cm, doc., tv, 1983), L'ultimo concerto (cm, doc., tv, 1984), Tre storie (co-regia, 1998), Falsa testimonianza (mm, 1999), Guarda il cielo (Stella, Sonia, Silvia) (2000), Baby (cm, tv, 2000), Controvento (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director:Piergiorgio Gay.
Plot: Elena Calogero.
Screenplay: Elena Calogero, Piergiorgio Gay.
Director of photography: Fabio Olmi.
Scenografia e costumi: Daniela Verdenelli.
Editor: Carlotta Cristiani, Sabrina Foti.
Sound: Claudio Morra.
Music: Domenico Mezzatesta.
Cast and characters: Sandra Ceccarelli (Stella, Sonia, Silvia), Paolo Pierobon (Alberto), Denis Fasolo (Antonio), Antonio Latella (Armando), Giuseppe Battiston (direttore del personale), Antonio Catania (Gigi).
Production company: Piergiorgio Gay per Ipotesi Cinema, via Giasone del Maino 23, 20146 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-02-4691095, fax +39-02-4691206, e-mail info@ipotesicinema.it.
Co-production: Rai Cinema.
Foreign sales agent: Rai Trade, via Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-06-37498469, fax +39-06-37498211, e-mail filippelli@raitrade.it.
Plot: Elena Calogero.
Screenplay: Elena Calogero, Piergiorgio Gay.
Director of photography: Fabio Olmi.
Scenografia e costumi: Daniela Verdenelli.
Editor: Carlotta Cristiani, Sabrina Foti.
Sound: Claudio Morra.
Music: Domenico Mezzatesta.
Cast and characters: Sandra Ceccarelli (Stella, Sonia, Silvia), Paolo Pierobon (Alberto), Denis Fasolo (Antonio), Antonio Latella (Armando), Giuseppe Battiston (direttore del personale), Antonio Catania (Gigi).
Production company: Piergiorgio Gay per Ipotesi Cinema, via Giasone del Maino 23, 20146 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-02-4691095, fax +39-02-4691206, e-mail info@ipotesicinema.it.
Co-production: Rai Cinema.
Foreign sales agent: Rai Trade, via Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-06-37498469, fax +39-06-37498211, e-mail filippelli@raitrade.it.