20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
The Sacher Diares 2002

L'implacabile tenente Rossi

The Implacable Liutenant Rossi

Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 23'


Lieutenant Antonio Rossi tells of how he never showed any signs of weakness and managed to resist the rigors of the Nazi concentration camps. Only when he was out of sight of other people could he take his austere mask off, torturing himself with the thought of his sick mother and with the gripping memory of his father.

"Working on Antonio Rossi's written diary was a way for me to get close to my father again. He, too, was deported to a concentration camp. It was a way to get to know better his ideals and sufferings at the age of only twenty. Twenty is an age that people of my generation had the good fortune of living through in a way that was decided less traumatic. These days it is impressive to think about how powerless such a great number of young people were then in their ability to make choices and how violently they were forced into awareness, already fatigued by the terrifying contact with war. This experience made a generation faithful to values that seem to be overlooked today ñ honor, self-respect, and dignity." (F. Calogero)

Biography

film director

Francesco Calogero

Francesco Calogero (Messina, 1957) is a law school graduate. He has worked with the Taormina Festival for eighteen years and directed the Messina Film Festival since 1995. In that year he also debuted as opera director. He first made two Super8 films and some videos and then in 1987 directed his first feature film, La gentilezza del tocco.

FILMOGRAFIA

La gentilezza del tocco (1987), Visioni private (1990), Nessuno (1992), Cinque giorni di tempesta (1997), Metronotte (2000), L'implacabile tenente Rossi (doc., 2002).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio: Francesco Calogero.
Cast: Antonio Rossi.
Produzione, distribuzione: Nanni Moretti e Angelo Barbagallo per Sacher Film, viale della Piramide Cestia 1, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5745353 e +39-06-5744725.
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