Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 27'
Cesare is a young “coatto” whose tranquil, multi-ethnic provincial life is suddenly turned upside down when he is arrested by detective Gaspardi. Cesare is taken to a mysterious basement for interrogation and is forced to deal with inspector Gaspardi in an increasingly tense confrontation. He finds himself thrown into a surreal situation with Kafka-like overtones and it is only thanks to his street smarts that he manages to prevail. “Being a ‘coatto’ isn’t a disorder, it’s a prerogative. In fact, it’s the prerogative of the past millennium and it brazenly connotes a good fifty percent of the population of this handicapped Country. We, a Country of rustics, must finally accept that the prelude to incivility is the state of always wanting to be above the others, for the same sterile reasons that made us so arrogant as children. This allegory is simply a microscopic and grotesque vision of a global and equally shameful reality that is the aberrant hyperbole of a useless and corrupt military power.”
Biography
film director
Simone Tartocchi
(Rome, 1976) studied at the Griffith Academy for Television and Cinema in Rome in 2002, following courses held by Daniele Segre, Marco Pontecorvo and Vincenzo Carpineta. He worked as a cameraman for the film Zero, inchiesta sull’11 settembre (2007) by Giulietto Chiesa, Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento. He also worked on the film Pablo, vite di un poeta (2005) by Dario Baldi and was also the film’s co-producer. In 2000 he made the short No Stop and in 2003 the short My Son’s Legacy. He then directed the documentaries Polonia (2004) and Germania dell’Est, 25 anni dopo la riunificazione (2005), both of which were written by Franco Fracassi. In 2005 he made a documentary about organizing a theatrical performance, Il borghese è veramente gentiluomo? by Giuseppe Talarico.
FILMOGRAFIA
No Stop (cm, 2000), My Son’s Legacy (cm, 2003), Polonia (doc., 2004), Germania dell’Est, 25 anni dopo la riunificazione (doc., 2005), L’allegoria del coatto di Neanderthal (cm, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, story, screenplay, producer Simone Tartocchi
fotografia/director of photography Francisco Gaete Vega
scenografia, costumi/set design, costume design Martina Porziani
montaggio/film editor Andrea Clauser
suono/sound Marco Fazzalari
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Giovanni Pietrolonardo (Cesare), Giuseppe Talarico (l’ispettore/inspector Gaspardi), Luca Milesi (l’agente/agent Erimanno), Christian Lombardi (Ennio), Dario Baldi (il poliziotto matto/crazy policeman), Achille Scarpitti (il commissario/commissioner), Maria Concetta Liotta (la zingara/gipsy girl), Fabrizio Petrivelli (il ragazzo in motorino/boy on the motorcycle), Luca Martini (il ragazzo con il pitbull/boy with the
pitbull terrier), Maria Hortensia Iraola (la cantante/singer)
fotografia/director of photography Francisco Gaete Vega
scenografia, costumi/set design, costume design Martina Porziani
montaggio/film editor Andrea Clauser
suono/sound Marco Fazzalari
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Giovanni Pietrolonardo (Cesare), Giuseppe Talarico (l’ispettore/inspector Gaspardi), Luca Milesi (l’agente/agent Erimanno), Christian Lombardi (Ennio), Dario Baldi (il poliziotto matto/crazy policeman), Achille Scarpitti (il commissario/commissioner), Maria Concetta Liotta (la zingara/gipsy girl), Fabrizio Petrivelli (il ragazzo in motorino/boy on the motorcycle), Luca Martini (il ragazzo con il pitbull/boy with the
pitbull terrier), Maria Hortensia Iraola (la cantante/singer)
