Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 30'
An old, lonely man, a philosopher and expert cook, is dying in a hospital room after suffering a heart attack. In a combination of dreams and reality, past and present, he thinks about the meaning of his life, about love and about death. The only witness-spectator of this reflection of his is a young Bulgarian nurse. Maybe things happened in a completely different way, but what’s important is that they happened. “What struck me in the short story by Egi Volterrani wasn’t the memory of lost affections, or the regret and nostalgia for them, but his philosophy about life and death. There was the desire to try to relive certain emotions like love, sex, embracing another human being without being rebuffed. What interested me was depicting the part that is considered scandalous, that isn’t accepted by current morality. And then, it’s even more scandalous if it’s an old man telling the story and if he falls in love with a young woman as his life is ending. I think that love and sexual desire in old age are a way of opposing death.”
Biography
film director
Armando Ceste
(Turin, Italy, 1942), after several experiences in underground cinema (his first short film, La lezione, was screened at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1969 in Turin), in the beginning of the 1970s he is one of the founders of Collettivo cinema militante in Turin. In the last years he has made several works, some of them in collaboration with the Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico in Rome. He has been artistic director at Valsusa FilmFest, film festival on the themes of historic memory and environment defense.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/
essential philmography
La lezione (1969), I migliori anni della nostra vita (1987), Nosferatu, ogni notte di fronte a me (1988), Das Rastel einer Strasse (1988), Recita (1990), L’ultimo nastro (1991), Finale di partita (1992), Marzo 1973 - I giorni della Fiat (1993), Aria di golpe (1994), Mai tardi (1996), Anna Karina. Il volto della Nouvelle Vague (1996), Le parole sono importanti (1996), Adriano Sofri. Viaggio alla fine del mondo (1998), Rosso/Askatasuna (a proposito di un primo maggio di guerra) (1999), Romeo & Giulietta. Il gioco del film (2000), Abdellah e i suoi fratelli (2000), Erri De Luca. Dopo Genova (filastrocche sgangherate) (2001), Libera terra (2002), Fiatamlet (2003), Variazioni (2004), Porca miseria (2005), Love difference (2006), Amoremorte (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editor Armando Ceste
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Armando Ceste, Egi Volterrani
fotografia/director of photography Luciano D’Onofrio
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Egi Volterrani (l’uomo anziano/old man), Alena Dantcheva (l’infermiera/nurse)
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Armando Ceste, Egi Volterrani
fotografia/director of photography Luciano D’Onofrio
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Egi Volterrani (l’uomo anziano/old man), Alena Dantcheva (l’infermiera/nurse)
