Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 43'


A series of documentaries dedicated to a couple that became famous in the cinema, art, music and culture of the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies. The films are made up of stock footage, original interviews, and authoritative eyewitness reports from those decades. The guiding idea of this project has been the effort to tell the story of a love affair where the encounter between a man and a woman becomes an opportunity for great creative companionship.

Biography

film director

Monica Repetto

(Rome, Italy, 1965), a graduate in psychology, in the early 1990s started working as a movie critic before entering the world of cinema. In 2011, she created and curated the launch of On The Docks, the first Italian platform for on-demand videos dedicated to reality cinema. An essayist and the author of works about film, she is one of the tutors of the Premio Zavattini. A prolific director, she has collaborated with Pietro Balla on the making of numerous documentaries, including ThyssenKrupp Blues (2008), which was presented at the Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Camerini ardenti. Primo tempo, dossier incompiuto su pornostar (senza sesso) (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 1996), Amateurs (coregia Pietro Balla, cm, 1999), Amateurs 2 (coregia Pietro Balla, cm, 2000), Figurine (serie TV, doc, 2000), Umanoidi associati (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2000), Panico Jodorowsky (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2000), Dèrive Gallizio (doc, mm, 2001), Honduras Trip (doc, 2003), I popoli dell’Honduras (doc, 2004), L’avventurosa storia di Gola Profonda in Italia (doc, mm, 2005), La vera storia di Marianne Golz (coregia Pietro Balladoc, mm, 2007), Scatti di nera (coregia Pietro Balla, serie TV, 2007), Operai (co-diretto Pietro Balla, doc, mm, 2008), ThyssenKrupp Blues (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2008), Robocup (doc, 2009), La forza delle idee (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2010), Falck. Romanzo di uomini e fabbrica (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, mm, 2010), Milo Manara. Il gioco dell’avventura (doc, 2011), I racconti della Luna Veja (doc, 2012), 'O Rugbill (doc, cm, 2016), La foresta che ti strega (doc, 2018), I ragazi selvatici (doc, 2018), Il corpo dell'amore (coregia Pietro Balla, serie doc, 2019), Il guardiano di stambecchi (doc, 2020), 1974 1979. Le nostre idee (doc, 2020).

Pietro Balla

Pietro Balla (Poirino, Turin, Italy, 1956-2021) earned his degree in political science; in 1985 he started making shows and documentaries for Italian television. His works include Illibatezza, 1949 - Nelle terre di Dio, Dérive Gallizio, Ballando nel fumo and I campioni di Olimpia. He created and produced the series Scatti di nera, with Michele Placido, for Fox International Channels Italia, and, between 2007 and 2008, he co-directed and produced with Monica Repetto the documentary Operai for Raitre. In 2008 the Venice Film Festival presented his documentary feature ThyssenKrupp Blues, directed and produced with Monica Repetto, his companion and main collaborator.

FILMOGRAFIA

Illibatezza (cm, 1994), Camerini ardenti (mm, doc., 1996), Amateurs (coregia Monica Repetto, cm, doc., 1999), Agathae, 3 giorni di fuoco e devozione (mm, doc., 1999), Amateurs 2 (coregia Monica Repetto, cm, doc., 2000), 1949 - Nelle terre di Dio 
(mm, doc., 2000), Dérive Gallizio (doc., 2000), Amori in fiamme (coregia Monica Repetto, mm, tv, 2002), Ballando nel fumo (doc., 2002), I campioni di Olimpia 
(doc., 2004), L’odore della gomma (mm, doc., 2005), Scatti di nera (tv, 2006), Operai (coregia Monica Repetto, doc., 2008), ThyssenKrupp Blues (coregia Monica Repetto, doc., 2008), Radio Singer (mm, doc., 2009), Nitro (mm, 2012), Il corpo dell'amore (tv, 2019).

Cast

& Credits

Director and plot: Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto.
Interviste e testi: Guglielmo Gentile, Giulia Merenda, Monica Repetto, Rosalba Ruggeri.
Riprese: Pietro Balla, Giada Colagrande, Stefano Di Leo, Monica Repetto, Stella Savino.
Ricerche di repertorio: Rosalba Ruggeri.
Edizione: Pietro Balla, Guglielmo Gentile, Monica Repetto.
Editor: Adriano Mestichella, Paolo Rioli.
Voice: Francesca Corso.
Production company: Deriva Film, via Gaetano Sacchi 20, 00153 Roma, tel. +39-06-5810086.
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