Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 18
A group of detainees, coordinated by a director, participates to a film writing workshop in the prison of Rebibbia. They write scripts about autobiographical stories and characters, testimonies and looks on their lives outside the schemes. They choose a subject that can be realized in jail and decide to start a film that will be written, directed and played by the detainees. But jail reality reserves for them a bitter surprise: one of the workshop's animators, Germano Maccari, dies in his cell like the main character of their script.
Biography
film director
Rakhshan Bani Etemad
Rakhshan Bani Etemad was born in Tehran in 1954. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1979, he began making documentaries, directing nine from 1979 to 1996. In 1987 he made his first full-length fiction film, Kharej az Mahdudeh. In 1996, Turin's Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani dedicated a complete retrospective to his oeuvre. Zir-e poost-e shahr is his eighth film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kharej az Mahdudeh (Off the Limits, 1987), Zard-e Qanari (Canary Yellow, 1988), Pul-e Khareji (Foreign Currency, 1989), Nargess (1991), Rusari Abi (The Blue-Veiled, 1994), Banu-ye Ordibehesht (The May Lady, 1998), Baran-o Bumi (Baran & the Native, episodio, 1999), Zir-e poost-e shahr (Under the Skin of the City, 2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/Director, story, screenplay: Liberamente (Mario Daole, Fernando Garofolo, Valerio Jalongo, Germano Maccari, Ciriaco Marras, Osvaldo Paccini, Dario Pedretti, Ludovico Speranza)
Montaggio/Film editor: Luca Acito
Suono/Sound: Alberto Colajacomo
Voce del narratore/Voice: Valerio Jalongo
Produttore/Producer: Valerio Jalongo
Montaggio/Film editor: Luca Acito
Suono/Sound: Alberto Colajacomo
Voce del narratore/Voice: Valerio Jalongo
Produttore/Producer: Valerio Jalongo