Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 101
"My grandfather was called Ignazio. The film is a long video-letter to my son based on a few of my songs and a series of short stories about my friends. The real stars of the film are two towns: Sanza il Sud and Piadena il Nord. The first is all political experience, the other is all cultural politics that started in the 1970s and still carries on today, thanks to the Lega di Cultura di Piadena. Two towns and a symbolic manifestation held by the unions in Reggio Calabria since the early '70s, which also has the merit of inspiring Giovanna Marini's I treni per Reggio Calabria [...]. The film is an attempt to show my son how much energy has been put into changing, if not the world, at least this town, and how much wealth we have managed to waste in just under 40 years." (P. Pietrangeli)
Biography
film director
Paolo Pietrangeli
Paolo
Pietrangeli (Rome, 1945)
during his university
years he was involved in the Students’ Movement and wrote
various songs which
have become the soundtrack to that movement. He became actively
involved in
cinema, first as assistano director to Visconti, Fellini, Zurlini and
Bolognini, and then directing a feature film, Bianco e Nero (1974).
In 1977 he
directed Porci con le ali (Pigs Have
Wings) and in 1980 I
Giorni contati (The Days are Numbered). He
divides his time between directing
– first for cinema and then for television – and
his “cantatas” throughout
Italy. He was the director of the Maurizio Costanzo Show and
Amici.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bianco e Nero (1974), Porci
con le ali (1977),
I giorni cantati (1980), L’addio
a Berlinguer (doc., 1984), Un
altro mondo è possibile (2001), Ignazio (doc.,
2005).