Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 60'
The first and the only authorized biography of the great Chinese director, John Woo, an authentic myth for the latest generation of film lovers. The publicity-shy director agreed to tell the story of his childhood as a poor boy in Hong Kong, his vocation to become a priest, and his re-conversion to the cinema of violence, which is always represented in the form of expiation. The director talks about his whole career and about those whom he considers his masters ó Jean-Pierre Melville, Sergio Leone and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Biography
film director
Simone Del Vecchio
Simone Del Vecchio (Milan, 1964) began to work as a film editor in the late 1980s and then passed over to television production and direction. At present he handles special programs and documentaries for Tele+.
David Grieco
David Grieco (Rome, Italy, 1951), at a young age, performed in Romeo and Juliet (1968) by Franco Zeffirelli; Teorema (Theorem, 1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who became his friend; and Partner (1968) by Bernardo Bertolucci. A foreign correspondent, and film and music critic for “L’Unità,” he is also a screenwriter, writing scripts for movies such as Caruso Paskoski di padre polacco (1988) by Francesco Nuti, and Mortacci (1989) and I magi randagi (1996) by Sergio Citti. In 2004, he debuted in feature films with Evilenko (based on his own novel, Il comunista che mangiava i bambini), which was followed in 2016 by La macchinazione. He has also written and hosted topical programs about film (“Hollywood Party,” “Radio City Café,” “Il giornale del cinema”) and written documentaries about filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood, John Woo and Mario Monicelli.
FILMOGRAFIA
Borgata America (tv, doc., 2002), Evilenko (2004), La favola inventata (tv, doc., 2005), La macchinazione (2016).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Simone Del Vecchio.
Plot: David Grieco.
Director of photography: Davide Amoriello.
Editor: Livio Aloja.
Cast: John Woo, David Grieco.
Production company: Tele+, Milano; Michela Barbiero per Europa Tv, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-70027303.
Plot: David Grieco.
Director of photography: Davide Amoriello.
Editor: Livio Aloja.
Cast: John Woo, David Grieco.
Production company: Tele+, Milano; Michela Barbiero per Europa Tv, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-70027303.