25° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Vogliamo anche le rose

WE ALSO WANT THE ROSES

Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 85'


Anita, Teresa and Valentina, who all originate from different parts of Italy and a range of social classes, are united in their feeling unable to find their place in a patriarchal, male chauvinist and marital society in which they are supposed to be irreproachable mothers and obedient spouses. Through their private diaries, three episodes unfold that relate to women’s status over a period from the mid-60s through to the late 1970s: the difficult coming of age of a young woman, due to an oppressive father, the illegal abortion of a teenager and the experience of a feminist torn between love and activism.

“With Vogliamo anche le rose, I wanted chart the history of women since the mid-60s until the late 1970s, to relate it to our own contentious and contradictory times, and to provoke thinking about these issues which are still very much with us, since so much has been completely and rudely called into question.”

Biography

film director

Alina Marazzi

(Milan, Italy, 1965) lives and works in Milan. She has made several documentaries of a social nature for television, including Il declino di Milano (1992) and Mediterreaneo, il mare industrializzato (1993). In 2002, she made Un’ora sola ti vorrei, a portrait of her mother, who committed suicide when she was seven. Screened at Locarno in the Video Competition, the film received a Special Jury mention as well as the prize for Best Documentary at the Torino Film Festival. In 2005 she participated at Torino Film Festival with Per sempre in Doc 2005 Competition.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il declino di Milano (TV, doc., 1992), Mediterraneo, il mare industrializzato (TV, doc., 1993), Il Ticino è vicino? (doc., 1995), Ragazzi dentro (doc., 1997), Il sogno tradito (doc., 1999), Un’ora sola ti vorrei (doc., 2002), Per sempre (doc., 2005), Vogliamo anche le rose (doc., 2007).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Alina Marazzi
fotografia/director of photography Mario Masini
montaggio/film editor Ilaria Fraioli
musica/music Ronin
suono/sound Benni Atria
interpreti/cast Anita Caprioli, Teresa Saponangelo, Valentina Carnelutti
produzione/production Mir Cinematografica s.r.l
coproduttore/coproducer Giada Rossi Zaniol, Andres Pfaeffli
coproduzione/coproduction Cult - Fox Channels Rai Cinema, RTSI CP, Ventura Film SA
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