Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 65'
From Pentothal to Pompeo, this is the portrait of Andrea Pazienza, one of the greatest authors of the illustrated narrative. In his works he described the humors, the tastes, and the language of a decade in Italian history. There were the March 11 clashes in Bologna in which he was not totally involved. However, he became the prophet and the witness of that stormy 1977 in his Pentothal. In the 1980s Pazienza described the result of a battle lost against heroin in Pompeo with anguishing clarity. We see the people who he worked and shared experiences with, including Milo Manara, Sergio Staino, Tanino Liberatore, Marina Comandini Pazienza, and Bifo Berardi. This is a recollection of an artist that many people have liked to call genial.
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: Giusi Santoro.
Production company: Tele+ - Minnie Ferrara per la Minnie Ferrara & Associati, tel. +39-02-2049138, fax +39-02-2049681, e-mail minnie.ferrara@agora.it; Stefano Mordini per la St/art Produzioni, tel. +39-0542-32421, fax +39-0542-22345, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it.
Italian distribution: Telepiù, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.
Director of photography: Luigi Martinucci.
Editor: Giusi Santoro.
Production company: Tele+ - Minnie Ferrara per la Minnie Ferrara & Associati, tel. +39-02-2049138, fax +39-02-2049681, e-mail minnie.ferrara@agora.it; Stefano Mordini per la St/art Produzioni, tel. +39-0542-32421, fax +39-0542-22345, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it.
Italian distribution: Telepiù, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.