Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 60'
Every evening, the "ghost train" leaves from the Buenos Aires train station, Costitution. This train is for the paper gatherers who every day, from five in the afternoon until three in the morning, descend upon the Argentinean capital to gather up scrap paper and then re-sell it. This is one of the effects of the economic crisis. The International Monetary Fund has always considered Argentina its model student. For years it has lent the various governments money, adding to the country's foreign debt. Today, Argentina is the most catastrophic example of the Monetary Fund's intervention in a nation's economy.
"It is frightening to see how from one day to the next a person can lose everything in which he believed all his life" (S. Mordini).
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
Director: Stefano Mordini.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Liliana Cardile, Stefano Mordini.
Director of photography: Luigi Martinucci.
Editor: Paolo Guerrieri.
Production company: Bruno Pellegrini per OffSide, via Farnese 4, 00192 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-335-6191763, fax +39-06-32849262, e-mail bruno_pellegrini@yahoo.it.
Co-production: Kamera Film, c/o La Palazzina, via Quaini 14, 40026 Imola (Bologna), Italia, tel. +39-0542-32755 e +39-0542-32421, fax +39 954222345, www.kamerafilm.it, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it; Axis Consulenti Associati, e-mail axisca@tin.it.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Liliana Cardile, Stefano Mordini.
Director of photography: Luigi Martinucci.
Editor: Paolo Guerrieri.
Production company: Bruno Pellegrini per OffSide, via Farnese 4, 00192 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-335-6191763, fax +39-06-32849262, e-mail bruno_pellegrini@yahoo.it.
Co-production: Kamera Film, c/o La Palazzina, via Quaini 14, 40026 Imola (Bologna), Italia, tel. +39-0542-32755 e +39-0542-32421, fax +39 954222345, www.kamerafilm.it, e-mail kamerafilm@libero.it; Axis Consulenti Associati, e-mail axisca@tin.it.