Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 85'


Metropolitan adventure in a hut under a bridge, a flea market and a late-night bar. All places that attract people on the outer limits of everyday life in a big city, Rome. Victor, a wandering nomad from Rome, is the leading character. Four men who live in the hut under the Testaccio bridge have organized an open-air lunch. Victor is their guest. The meal is interrupted by two girls who are camping out in a tent and have just woken up after having passed the night together. A young man attempts suicide but the two girls save him…

Biography

film director

Carola Spadoni

Carola Spadoni was born in Rome and studied cinema at Brooklyn College in New York, where she also worked on numerous independent productions. In 1996 she founded the New York Open Cine, an association which organizes free movie projections. Since 1992, she has made one feature film, two documentaries, six short films and two video clips between New York and Rome. In 1999 she took part in the Biennale d'Arte in Venice for the Orestecinema project. She has recently completed a documentary about Arthur Penn and has participated in a collective film about the G8 forum in Genoa.

FILMOGRAFIA

Make Believe Aconin (cm, 1992), Love & Life (co-regia, doc., cm, 1992), Smile Shy Slide (cm, 1993), On the Way… By Night (cm, 1993), Untitled (cm, 1995), Neighbors (cm, 1996), Al confine tra il Missouri e la Garbatella (cm, 1997), D.D.T./187 Abducted (clip, 1999), Symphonies of Memories (clip, 2001), Arthur Penn: The Work (doc., 2001), Giravolte (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director and plot: Carola Spadoni.
Screenplay: Carola Spadoni, Graziano Misuraca.
Director of photography: Giulio Pietromarchi, Paolo Carnera, Stefano Moser.
Scenografia e costumi: Helga Williams.
Editor: Carlotta Cristiani, Cecilia Pagliarani.
Sound: Maricetta Lombardo.
Cast and characters: Victor Cavallo (Victor), Manuela Machniz (Lisa), Chiara Schoras (Lady), Vincenzo Pietroiaco (Enzo), Danilo Giannini (Danilo), Moritz Alioto (Maurizio).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Gianluca Arcopinto per Axelotil, P.zza S.ta Maria Liberatrice 27, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5745004, fax +39-06-5755242.
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