22° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2004 Out of competition

I ragazzi della Panaria

The Boys of Panaria

Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 52


THE BOYS OF PANARIA The story, charming and adventurous, of four Sicilian boys who, at the end of the war, found a film production company, Panaria Film, which casually gets in the middle of the greatest film scandal of all times, between Hollywood, after-war Rome and Eolie Islands: the war of the volcanoes. An artistic, human, public and production clash which opposed Roberto Rossellini, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman against the young aristocrats of Panaria, "prompters" of film Stromboli and producers of competing film Vulcano. 80 year-old Francesco Alliata, Prince of Villafranca and Duke of Salaparuta, the last survivor of the Panaria film, tries to reconstruct, with photos, documents and archive films, that adventurous season of 50 years ago.

Biography

film director

Nello Correale

Nello Correale (Rome, 1955), after graduating in Philosophy, he obtains a diploma at the Milan Film School. Director and scriptwriter, in 1998 he started teaching Film Language at Film and Visual Arts Conservatory in Lugano. He directs the Frontier Film Festival since 2000. He has worked as co-writer in several films such as Il Viaggio della speranza by Xavier Koller (1991) and Luna e l'altra by Maurizio Nichetti (1996).

FILMOGRAFIA

Masolino da Panicale (doc, 1983), S. Caterina del Sasso (doc, 1984), Il Villaggio Pestalozzi, Svizzera (doc, 1991), Stazioni d'Europa: Stazione Centrale (doc, 1992), Divieto di Caccia (1992), Di Quale Amore (1994), Oltremare (1998), Not Registred (1999), Addio Mister Frog (2001), Sotto gli occhi di tutti (2001), Viaggio a Timbuctu (doc, 2002), I ragazzi della Panaria (doc, 2004).

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