Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 82'
The Coro delle mondine of Novi is a choir made of twenty women
from the lower region of Modena. The experiences of the oldest women
date back to rice harvests (in the countryside of Piemonte) and the
Resistance (in Emilia). Many of the songs of their repertory were sung
in the rice paddies, but over time the choir of Novi has been updated.
First, when the daughters of the “mondine” (the rice harvesters) joined
the choir, then when Fiamma Fumana, an electro-folk group, added
the contribution of the girls who are twenty years old today.
“What struck me most about these women is the distance they have
come. They spent the early years of their life in an Italy that had been
devastated by fascism and the war and began working in a context
of total poverty. Their youth and their dreams were annulled by the
difficult context they lived in. Through this choir, these women have
become the protagonists of the second part of their life. The choir
illustrates the values of female sociality and collective action that their
life as ‘mondine’ had taught them.”
Biography
film director
Andrea Zambelli
(Bergamo, 1975) participated at the 2008 Torino Film Festival and the next year at the Toronto Film Festival with From Mother to Daughter. He collaborated with Davide Ferrario on After Midnight (2003) and Primo Levi’s Journey (2005). Along with Alberto Mussolini and Luca Scaffidi, they directed Striplife, which won the Jury Special Prize, the Avanti! Award and the Gandhi Award at the 2013 Torino Film Festival. In Turin he also presented Rino - La mia ascia di guerra and Irrawaddy mon amour, both shot in 2015, followed by another documentary Killing Time (2018).
FILMOGRAFIA
Farebbero tutti silenzio (doc., cm, 2001), Deheishe Refugees Camp (cm, doc., 2002), 052 (cm, 2002), Identità (mm, doc., 2003), MisuraXmisura (mm, doc., 2004), Nightshot (mm, videoclip, 2005), Mercancìa (cm, doc., 2006), Di madre in figlia (doc., 2008), Striplife (coregia/codirectors Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, doc., 2013), Rino - La mia ascia di guerra (doc., 2015), Irrawaddy mon amour (doc., 2015), Killing Time (doc., 2018), A guardia di un fede (doc., 2023).
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/director, cinematography Andrea Zambelli
soggetto/story Alberto Cottica, Jessica Lombardi
montaggio/film editing Claudio Cormio
musica/music Coro delle mondine di Novi, Fiamma Fumana
suono/sound Vito Martinelli
interpreti/cast
Giulia Contri, Silva Manicardi, Lidia Ascari, Diva Lazzaretti, Diva Cavazzoni, Laura Bertoni, Adriana Paltrinieri, Rina Cipolli, Elda Boccassini, Viliana Cavaletti, Anna Bernini, Deanna Bertoni
produttore/producer Davide Ferrario
produzione/production Rossofuoco
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, word sales Rossofuoco
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