Country: Italy, France
Year: 2001
Duration: 75'
The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts with history. There is a young leftist idealist, a city councilperson who is fighting real estate speculation. This is the portrait of Latina and its inhabitants. This province is certainly an anomaly, but is not so far from the present-day times that all of Italy is going through now.
"The worst ghosts of history haunt the world when we have nothing more to say, when nobody gets mad anymore, and when nobody pays his dues to the past. Someone has said that to have a clean conscience is to have a bad memory. In the face of all this arrogance, the only possible answer is to go back to being political, even with the weapon of film" (Gianfranco Pannone).
Biography
film director
Gianfranco Pannone
(Naples, Italy, 1963) graduated in film from Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; he lives and works in Rome. His documentaries have participated and received awards at many festivals in Italy and abroad, and have also been broadcast on major European television channels. His works from the 1990s include Piccola America, Lettere dall’America, and L’America a Roma (which compose the Trilogia dell’America), and Latina/Littoria (2001, best documentary at the Torino Film Festival), followed by Io che amo solo te (2004), Il sol dell’avvenire (Red Sunrise, 2008), ma che Storia… (2010), Ebrei a Roma (2012), Sul vulcano (2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Lascia stare i santi (Leave the Saints Alone, 2016), Mondo Za (2017), and Scherza con i fanti (2019).He is a professor and coordinator of directing for the Master's degree in Film and Television at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, and he runs the documentary film laboratory at the DAMS of Roma Tre University. He also collaborates as a professor of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
La giostra (cm, 1989), Vacanze d'Egitto (cm, 1990), Piccola America (doc, 1991), Kenya (doc, 1995), Lettere dall’America (doc, 1995), Romani - Storie di normale integrazione (doc, 1996), Ritorno a Littoria (doc, 1996), La dama bruna - Gli ultimi giorni di Ciano (doc, 1997), Ombre del sud (1997), L’America a Roma (doc, 1998), Le leggi dimenticate (doc, 1998), Kelibia-Mazara (coregia con Tarek Ben Abdallah doc, cm, 1998), La guerra di Anna (doc, 1999), Così vicini, così lontani (1999), Pomodori - Viaggio nell’identità italiana (doc, 1999), Ferie - gli italiani e le vacanze (doc, cm, 2000), Sirena operaia (doc, 2000), Ferie: gli italiani e le vacanze (2000), Viaggio intorno alla mia casa (doc, 2000), Cerimonie: gli italiani, la Chiesa, lo Stato (2001), Latina/Littoria (doc, 2001) Venezia, la città che affonda (coregia con Marco Visalberghi, doc, 2001), Toscana: lungo il fiume (doc, 2002), Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (doc, 2004), 100 anni della nostra storia (coregia con Marco Simon Puccioni, doc, 2006), Cronisti di strada (doc, tv, 2007), Il sol dell’avvenire (doc, 2008), Immota manet (doc,cm, 2009), Ma che Storia... (doc, 2010), Silvio, One of Us (coregia collettiva, doc, 2011), Ebrei a Roma (doc, 2012), Scorie in libertà - L’incredibile avventura del nucleare in Italia (doc, 2012), Sul vulcano (doc, 2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (doc, 2015), Con Ugo (doc, cm, 2017), Lascia stare i santi (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2017), Gli altri (doc, cm, 2018), Mondo Za (doc, 2018), Scherza con i fanti (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2019), Campo 67 (doc,cm, 2020), Dell’acqua e del tempo (doc, 2020) Onde radicali (doc, 2021), Via Argine 310 (2022), Ok boomer (coregia Andrea Gopplero di Troppenburg, doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Gianfranco Pannone.
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: Luca Benedetti.
Sound: Maria Concetta Lombardo.
Music: Ambrogio Sparagna.
Production company: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Serge Lalou per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, www.fandango.it, e-mail fandangofilm@tin.it; Les Film d'Ici, Parigi.
Co-production: Tele+, Planete, Hysteria Film (Stoccolma), Effetto Notte.
Director of photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah.
Editor: Luca Benedetti.
Sound: Maria Concetta Lombardo.
Music: Ambrogio Sparagna.
Production company: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Serge Lalou per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, www.fandango.it, e-mail fandangofilm@tin.it; Les Film d'Ici, Parigi.
Co-production: Tele+, Planete, Hysteria Film (Stoccolma), Effetto Notte.