Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 65'
Every week millions of people are set in motion in order to go to the games. There are the people who play. There are the people who make themselves comfortable in the stands rooting for their teams. In the end some have won and the others have not. This happens to everybody in the major-league soccer championship. Meanwhile, the referee - almost always alone — travels to the stadium. He has to arrive on time, at least an hour before the beginning of the game, because the teams cannot play without a referee. Whoever that person is, whatever job he has in life, once he puts on his uniform, he becomes just "the referee" for everybody. He will go on field knowing that everyone there will agree on one thing only: that he is wrong.
"There is one job - among all the possible jobs that exist - that allows for no salvation. There is a job that requires a moral rigor and an ability for toleration like that of a saint and a psychophysical preparation worthy of an Olympic champion. This is a job that is chosen in complete freedom. At what age and for what reason does one decide to become a referee?" (Stefano Mordini).
Biography
film director
Stefano Mordini
Stefano Mordini (Marradi, Florence, 1968) began working with various production houses in 1990, first as executive producer, then as director. His works have received numerous recognitions in major Italian and international festivals and he has always been active in the production of documentaries. In 1999 he produced Faber, directed by Bruno Bigoni and Romano Giuffrida, and Gladiators - A Report on Italian Hard-core Cinema, by Maria Martinelli, which was the opening film of the Torino Film Festival in 2000. That same year he supervised the production of Comizi d'amore by Bruno Bigoni, a special on actor-director Leonardo Pieraccioni, directed by Maria Martinelli, and he directed Paz '77, about the artist Andrea Pazienza, and Referees, both of which were presented at last year's Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Percorsi (cm, 1992), I ladri (1995), That's the Way (1998), La tempesta (cm, 1998), Un delitto al giorno (1999), La fuga dei minori (2000), Suicidi letterari (2001), Paz è77 (2001), Arbitri (2001), L'allievo modello ( 2002).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Stefano Mordini.
Director of photography: Luigi Martinucci.
Editor: Luciano Larotonda.
Production company: Telepiù - Minnie Ferrara per la Minnie Ferrara & Associati, tel. +39-02-2049138, fax +39-02-2049681, e-mail minnie.ferrara@agora.it; Stefano Mordini per Kamera Film, tel. +39-0542-32755, fax +39-0542-22345, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it.
Italian distribution: Tele+, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.
Director of photography: Luigi Martinucci.
Editor: Luciano Larotonda.
Production company: Telepiù - Minnie Ferrara per la Minnie Ferrara & Associati, tel. +39-02-2049138, fax +39-02-2049681, e-mail minnie.ferrara@agora.it; Stefano Mordini per Kamera Film, tel. +39-0542-32755, fax +39-0542-22345, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it.
Italian distribution: Tele+, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.