Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 58'
The elderly inhabitants of San Secondo, a city in the Parma area, re-revoke their little stories of passion for music on the day of the 100th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, who loved this little city so much. There are Carlo and Neto, the rival tenors. There are Nino, a Wagner aficionado, and Paolina, who recalls a Falstaff recital directed by Toscanini. There is Fratello, a self-taught singer who sings the song, Midnight in Moscow. This homage is completed when the local association, Corte dei Rossi, stages a scene from Il Trovatore, the opera that lingers over the town like a ghost.
"We have made this film to show that the world belongs to 90-year-olds and that young people are the ones who are dying. We have made this film because the simple things are still and, unfortunately, always the hardest things" (Giovanni Cocconi, Pietro Medioli).
Biography
film director
Giovanni Cocconi
Giovanni Cocconi (Parma, 1967) has been working as a professional journalist for the last ten years. He is an experienced film and television critic and organizer of numerous film series. He participated in a workshop led by the actor-director Peter Mullan in Edinburgh.
Pietro Medioli
Pietro Medioli (Parma, 1966) moved to Bonn in 1992, where he worked at the Bonn Opera as assistant director for Giancarlo Del Monaco, Juri Liubimov, Werner Schroeter, Roberto Ciulli, Jürgen Rose, Wolf Münzner, and Werner Herzog. Afterwards, he began his collaboration with the composer Steve Reich. He has directed numerous operas and stage plays. In 2000 he moved back to Italy and published his diary-story, Viaggio verso Gesualdo.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il mondo che abbiamo perduto (2000), Ritmo blu (2000), Sandro Botticelli e la Divina Commedia (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Giovanni Cocconi, Pietro Medioli.
Plot: Arnaldo Scaramuzza.
Director of photography: Simone Pierini.
Editor: Francesco Biscuso.
Sound: Michele Tarantola.
Music: Roberto Bonati.
Cast: Massimo Rossi, Anna Mangora, Carlo Bonati, Paola Allegri, Luigi Finazzi, Domenico Dacrema, Piero Campanini, Giuseppe Campanini, Giovanni Pattini, Oreste Assandri, Primo Gualazzini, Angelo Gualazzini, William Assandri, Tomaso Santomaso, Diego Borettini, Laura Comelli, Pierluigi Poldi Allaj, Giuseppina Cantelli, Carlo Dodi, Vincenzo Faroldi, Andrea Giorgi, Enrico Tessina.
Production company and Italian distribution: Turi Finocchiaro per Komedì Produzioni, via Caduti del Lavoro 17, 43044 Collecchio, Parma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-0521-805335, e-mail pimedio@tin.it.
Plot: Arnaldo Scaramuzza.
Director of photography: Simone Pierini.
Editor: Francesco Biscuso.
Sound: Michele Tarantola.
Music: Roberto Bonati.
Cast: Massimo Rossi, Anna Mangora, Carlo Bonati, Paola Allegri, Luigi Finazzi, Domenico Dacrema, Piero Campanini, Giuseppe Campanini, Giovanni Pattini, Oreste Assandri, Primo Gualazzini, Angelo Gualazzini, William Assandri, Tomaso Santomaso, Diego Borettini, Laura Comelli, Pierluigi Poldi Allaj, Giuseppina Cantelli, Carlo Dodi, Vincenzo Faroldi, Andrea Giorgi, Enrico Tessina.
Production company and Italian distribution: Turi Finocchiaro per Komedì Produzioni, via Caduti del Lavoro 17, 43044 Collecchio, Parma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-0521-805335, e-mail pimedio@tin.it.