Country: Italy
Year: 1955
Duration: 10'
His final film about fishing in Sicily, it begins aboard a motorized fishing boat. The sound of the engine becomes a continuous background noise, that mixes in with the short sentences of the men and the mechanical creaking of the boat. “Thousands of men are aboard the fishing boats that, day and night, fish in the vast open sea between Sicily and Africa. When the weather becomes stormy they seek refuge on the island of Lampedusa,” explains a caption of the film.
Biography
film director
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta (Palermo, 1923) debuted as a director with Pasqua in Sicilia, which he co-directed with Vito Pandolfi, and between 1954 and 1955 he shot six documentaries in Sicily. Of these, Isola di fuoco won first prize for best documentary at the Festival of Cannes in 1955 and Contadini del mare won at Mannheim in 1956. He directed his first feature film in 1961, Banditi a Orgosolo. He switched to television in the 1970s, the start of a collaboration with RAI that resulted in the series Diario di un maestro (1973). He has recently made the documentary Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello (2002) and has finished shooting the feature film Lettere dal Sahara.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lu tempu di li pisci spata (cm, doc., 1954), Isole di fuoco (cm, doc., 1954), Surfarara (cm, doc., 1955), Parabola d'oro (cm, doc., 1955), Pasqua in Sicilia (cm, doc., 1956), Contadini del mare (cm, doc., 1956), Pescherecci (cm, doc., 1958), Pastori a Orgosolo (cm, doc., 1958), Un giorno in Barbagia (cm, doc., 1958), I dimenticati (cm, doc., 1959), Banditi a Orgosolo (1960), Un uomo a metà (1966), L'invitata (1969), Diario di un maestro (TV, 1973), Un anno a Pietralata (TV, 1974), In Calabria (1993), Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello (2002), Lettere dal Sahara (2005).
Cast
& Credits
director, story, cinematography, producer Vittorio De Seta
film editor Tita Perozzi
distribution Cinecittà International
film editor Tita Perozzi
distribution Cinecittà International
