Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 18' 11''
Stracci is the leading character of La ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In the film he stuffs himself to death with bread and cheese. Stracci, whose real name is Mario Cipriani, was a stonemason. He was discovered by Pasolini and catapulted onto the set, and later found himself acting with Orson Welles who flattered him, calling him a great actor. This was his downfall: he convinced himself that an acting career was his golden destiny. Pasolini, lucid and cynical, brought him back down to earth and convinced him to take up his old and more secure job as a stonemason once again. Today Stracci is an old man, and dreams about Welles, Pasolini and Citti, and is overcome by his old regret.
Biography
film director
Daniele Vicari
(Castel di Tora, Rieti, 1967) after film studies and a few collaborations with movie magazines, in the early 1990s began making historical-political short and medium-length movies, including Comunisti (1998), the collective project Partigiani (Partisans, 1997), and Non mi basta mai (1999), which he directed with Guido Chiesa, all presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2002, with Velocità massima (Maximum Velocity) he participated in competition at the Venice Film Festival and won the Pasinetti Award, followed by a David di Donatello for best new director. In 2005, with L'orizzonte degli eventi he participated at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and two years later he won another David di Donatello for his documentary Il mio paese. He next presented Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past is a Foreign Land, 2008) at the Rome Film Fest and his best-known movie Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) at the Berlinale, winning the Panorama Audience Award. That same year, he once again won a Pasinetti Award in Venice with his documentary La nave dolce (The Human Cargo), and in 2017 he presented Sole cuore amore (Sun, Heart, Love) in Rome, winning the Silver Ribbon for legality and winning another one the next year with the TV movie Prima che la notte. In 2021, he directed Il giorno e la notte (The Day and the Night), made during the lockdown. With Andrea Porporati and Francesca Zanza, he founded the production company Kon-Tiki film and he also published a novel with Einaudi, Emanuele nella battaglia (2019).
FILMOGRAFIA
Il nuovo (cm, 1991), Mari del sud (cm, 1993), Partigiani (coregia Guido Chiesa, Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti e Marco Simon Puccioni, doc., 1997), Uomini e lupi (doc., 1998), Comunisti (doc., 1998), Bajram (doc., 1998), Non mi basta mai (coregia Guido Chiesa, doc., 1999), Sesso, marmitte e videogames (cm, doc., 1999), Morto che parla (cm, 2000), Velocità massima (2002), L’orizzonte degli eventi (2005), Il mio paese (doc.., 2006), Il mio paese 2.0 (doc., 2007), Il passato è una terra straniera (2008), Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012), La nave dolce (doc.., 2012), UnoNessuno (2015), Sole cuore amore (2016), Prima che la notte (tv, 2018), L’Alligatore (serie tv, 2020), Aria (serie tv, 2020), Il giorno e la notte (2021), Orlando (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Daniele Vicari.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Art director: Stefania Maggio.
Editor: Marco Spolotini.
Sound: Maricetta Lombardo.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Mario Cipriani, Maria Gradi, Andrea Prodan, Maurizio Petroni, Paola Ciammaruchi, Andrea Cosentino, Edoardo Fracchia.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Art director: Stefania Maggio.
Editor: Marco Spolotini.
Sound: Maricetta Lombardo.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Mario Cipriani, Maria Gradi, Andrea Prodan, Maurizio Petroni, Paola Ciammaruchi, Andrea Cosentino, Edoardo Fracchia.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Co-production: Telepiù, Milano.