The pilot episode of a hypothetical series of comic crime stories that see Spacca and his faithful assistant Gnax circulate in the world of crime and corruption.
"This is a pure sit-com parody of the celebrated deeds of tv's Marshall Rocca" (Marco Giusti).
Biography
film director
Marco Giusti (I)
Marco Giusti (Grosseto, 1953) is a critic, film scholar, and television director whose work includes Blob, Blobcartoon, La situazione comica, Scirocco, Orgoglio coatto, Fenomeni, and Stracult. His books and essays have treated Carosello, Italian film of the 1970s and 1980s, Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi, Carlo Verdone and Totò. He has contributed to "Il Manifesto" and "L'Espresso" for more than twenty years.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pascali (tv, 1995), Almanacco delle profezie (tv, 1997/1998), Coatto come Mario Brega (tv, 1999, con Paolo Luciani), Il caso Piotta (tv, 2000), Il mambo del Giubileo (video, 2000), Totò 2001 (cm, video, 2000), Il maresciallo Spacca (cm, video, 2000, co-regia Manetti Bros), Stracult - In difesa del cinema italiano che spacca (tv, 2001), Antonelli Ennio? Campa… (tv, 2001), Bella ciao - Genoa Social Forum - Un altro mondo è possibile (tv, 2001, con Sal Mineo, Roberto Torelli), Garrincha (tv, 2001, con Paulo Cesar Saraceni, Roberto Torelli).
Marco Manetti (Manetti Bros)
Marco Manetti (Rome, 1968) worked for years as Vittorio Sindoni's assistant director as well as for French television. He studied screenwriting with Ettore Scola, Age, and Scarpelli. He worked as Marco Bellocchio's assistant director for Il principe di Homburg (1997).
FILMOGRAFIA
Passaparola (video, 1994).
Antonio e Marco Manetti (Manetti Bros): Consegna a domicilio (episodio di De generazione, 1994), Torino Boys (1997), Il segreto del giaguaro (2000), Zora la vampira (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Manetti Bros, Marco Giusti.
Editor: Paola Valeri.
Music: Robba Coatta.
Cast: Piotta, Gnax, Nicola Di Gioia, Giorgio Bracardi, Flavia Vento, Loredana Cannata, Mal, Bobby Solo, Amanda Lear, Alvaro Vitali, Stefania Corona, Tiberio Murgia, Franco Javarone, Carlo Monni, Osiride Pevarello, Rude, Cor Veleno, Duke, Roberta Modigliani, Roberto Torelli, Lillo, Remo Remotti, Sergio Salamini, Monica Flores, Marco Giusti, Marco Manetti.
Production company: Raidue, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-38781.