Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 48
The day when Palermo reached the
First Division. The documentary is about the making of the celebration
after waiting for 32 years and about the anxieties that such event
produces in the collective consciousness, a factor of sublimination and
personal revenge. A film about soccer without soccer as leading role.
Fans and common people take over the scene and make a show about their
passion.
"Can a soccer match upset the emotions of an entire city? Disbelieving,
we have witnessed, day after day, a slow and progressive closing on a
collective mass madness and excitement. We decided to describe the
D-day, from dawn to the first after-match. There are no protagonists,
but only a whole city, Palermo, as an endless repetition of loving and
patriotic gestures. Go Palermo, forever!" (M. Battaglia, G. Donati, L.
Schimmenti, A. Zulini)
Biography
film director
Marco Battaglia
Marco Battaglia (Palermo, 1975) has graduated in Film History with a final essay on the impact of digital technologies on contemporary film production and distribution. In 1993 he started wotrking with video. He lives and works in Palermo.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ali Babà 'u Palermo in serie A (doc, 2004).
Gianluca Donati
Gianluca Donati (Bologna, 1973) moved to Palermo in 2002. Andrea Zulini (Monfalcone, Gorizia, 1966) since 1989 has been living and working in Palermo, where, in 1998, founded the Playmaker production company.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ali Babà 'u Palermo in serie A (doc, 2004).
Laura Schimmenti
Laura Schimmenti (Palermo, 1966) has graduated in Photography at the European Design Institute in Rome in 1989 with a Master in camera technics for TV at the Maldoror School in Rome. She lives and works in Palermo.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ali Babà 'u Palermo in serie A (doc, 2004).
Andrea Zulini