20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2002 Competition
Triste e arrabbiato - La storia di Marian
by Michael Beltrami
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Year: 2002
Duration: 87'
Marian is a sixteen-year-old boy from Rumania. When he was six he accidentally swallowed some caustic soda, which burnt his esophagus and pharynx. Ever since then his life has been a torment, in and out of operating rooms. He eats by means of a small tube that has been implanted in his stomach and breathes thanks to a cannula. His voice is a whisper because his vocal cords were damaged during an operation. Marian has arrived in the Italian part of Switzerland to see if the hospitals there can make his dream come true: he would like to live a fairly normal life.
"I imagined Marian as a sort of large, surly adolescent, physically weakened by these last terrible years. Instead, a child who barely looked ten years old appeared before me, one meter ten centimeters tall, weighing thirty kilos. He didn't grow like other children his age, he remained small and frail. He smiles: he seems ready to face a new and decisive challenge" (M. Beltrami).
Biography
film director
Michael Beltrami
Michael Beltrami (Cologne, 1962) graduated in 1989 from the UCLA school of cinema. He then took courses at the same university in cinematographic writing. Since 1993 he has made various documentaries for Swiss television. Valentina è partita received a special mention from the jury in the DOC 2001 Competition at last year's Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bella? (1981/1984), City (cm, 1985), Our Hollywood Education (1991), Johanna amp; Patience Go to Hollywood (cm, 1992), Figli di Tell: l'Europa si avvicina (1993, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Via del centenario del cinema (1995, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Storie di ordinaria musica (1995), 7 giorni in ospedale (1996, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Missing in Bosnia e The Story of Avdo Palia (1997), Danza la terra (1997), Il paese che c'È (1997/1998), Invito a nozze - Appunti per un film sulla coppia (1998), Muri e fantasmi (1999), Night and Day Fragments of American Life (1999), Valentina è partita (2001, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Project Onoma (cm, 2001/2002), Triste e arrabbiato - La storia di Marian (2002).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia: Michael Beltrami.
Sound: Paolo Vandoni.
Music: Florin Maasz.
Editor: Stefano Sch¸tz.
Cast: Marian Stan, Daniela Soldati, Mihail Stan, Stela Stan, Alina Vivcerenco.
Produzione, distribuzione: Federico Jolli per TSI, Televisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, Casella postale, 6903 Lugano, Switzerland, tel. +41-91-8035111, fax +41-91-8035355, e-mail federico.jolli@rtsi.ch.
Sound: Paolo Vandoni.
Music: Florin Maasz.
Editor: Stefano Sch¸tz.
Cast: Marian Stan, Daniela Soldati, Mihail Stan, Stela Stan, Alina Vivcerenco.
Produzione, distribuzione: Federico Jolli per TSI, Televisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, Casella postale, 6903 Lugano, Switzerland, tel. +41-91-8035111, fax +41-91-8035355, e-mail federico.jolli@rtsi.ch.