Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 40'


This film tells stories of affection in San Vittore prison in Milan. There is irony, comedy, awareness, vulnerability and confession. There is the arrival of the new inmates. There are the memories of life outside. There are relationships with the other (male or female) and there is marriage.

"I began to visit the San Vittore prison regularly a couple of years ago after I had been invited to teach a lesson on film editing. I was struck by the humanity of the participants in the Audiovisual Group and of their fellow inmates. From that time on we invented stories - little episodes from prison life - and we put them on stage. This film is our most complex work up to now. It is about affection in prison. It is not a documentary, and not at all an investigation or report. Not even we know how to define it exactly" (Davide Ferrario).

Biography

film director

Gruppo Audiovisivi del carcere di San Vittore

The San Vittore Audiovisual Group originated as a project of the prison administration, the Region of Lombardy, and the Vigorelli Center of Professional Training. The inmates who participate in the work of the group can become licensed as television-film editors and camerapersons. Many of them have subsequently found jobs in private television.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fine amore: mai (2001).

Davide Ferrario

(Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy, 1956) graduated in Anglo-American literature. In the beginning of the 1980s he works with different cinema magazines and organizes film festivals and events. He is the author of many essays on cinema, of novels and several screenplays. He has directed short films and documentaries, and, among the long feature films, we would like to mention La fine della notte, Tutti giù per terra, based on the novel by Giuseppe Culicchia, and Guardami, screened in Venice in 1999. His novel Fade to Black, with fiction figure of Orson Welles, has been translated in many languages and in 2006 became an Oliver Parker’s film production of the same title. He partecipated at the Torino Film Festival with several titles, among which Materiale resistente (1995), codirected with Guido Chiesa, Sexx (2016), and Cento anni (2017). In 2020 he presented at the Festival the documentary feature Nuovo cinema paralitico (2020), and the following year the feature Just Noise.

FILMOGRAFIA

Non date da mangiare agli animali (cm, 1987), La fine della notte (1989), Lontano da Roma (doc, 1991), Anime fiammeggianti (1994), A Rimini (cm, 1995), Il figlio di Zelig (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (co-regia Guido Chiesa, doc, 1995), Confidential Report (doc, 1996), Estate in città (cm, 1996), Partigiani (doc, 1997), Tutti giù per terra (1997), Figli di Annibale (1998), Sul quarantacinquesimo parallelo (doc, 1998), Guardami (1999), Comunisti (doc, 1999), Linea di confine (doc, 2000), La rabbia (doc, 2000), Le strade di Genova (doc, 2001), Fine amore: mai (doc, 2002), I Tigi a Gibellina (doc, 2002), Mondonuovo (doc, 2003), Dopo mezzanotte (2003), Se devo essere sincera (2004), La strada di Levi (doc, 2006), Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009), Piazza Garibaldi (doc, 2012), La luna su Torino (2014), La zuppa del demonio (doc, 2014), Accademia Carrara: il museo riscoperto (doc, 2015), Sexxx (doc., 2016), Cento anni (doc., 2017), Nuovo cinema paralitico (docufilm, 2020), Blood on the Crown (2021), Boys (2021), Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo (doc, 2022).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Gruppo Audiovisivi del carcere di San Vittore coordinato da Davide Ferrario.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Marcelo Nieto, Santino Stefanini.
Music: Pedro Alvarez.
Editor: Vincenzo Verzillo.
Cast: i detenuti e le detenute del carcere di San Vittore, Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti.
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