Country: Italy
Year: 1980
Duration: 84'
Riccardo, a 1968 activist known as “Svitòl,” fled to Latin America
in 1972 to avoid a prison term. Five years later he returns to Milan
and wanders around the city as he discovers a new country and
searches for his old friends, who are unrecognizable. One, a drug
addict, has died, another has become a millionaire by playing the
stock market, others make deals to make ends meet. Post-1968 Italy
is crumbling under the blows of political subversion and Svitòl finds
he can’t relate to anything.
“The character Svitòl is a child of films. He is a child of Breathless,
Pierrot le fou, Will o’ the Wisp, Fists in The Pocket, Before the
Revolution, Accattone. He is the child of those films that recounted
the tragedy of uprooting, the drama of solitary anti-heroes without
a trace of mental organization which could help them live or survive,
or coexist with others. His life teeters on the edge of a choice he
continuously puts off: if he should side with those friends of his who
are spoilt rotten, or if he should side with the totally desperate ones.”
Biography
film director
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana (Milan, Italy, 1950) debuted with To Love the Damned (1980), which won the Golden Leopard at the Festival of Locarno. After La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981), in 1984 he made the television movie Notti e nebbie and in 1988
Appuntamento a Liverpool. He then directed Pasolini, an Italian Crime and The Hundred Steps, which won in 2000 the prize for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. In 2003 he won in the section Un certain regard at the Festival of Cannes with The Best
of Youth and in 2005 he participated in the competition at Cannes with Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide. His most recent film is Wild Blood.
FILMOGRAFIA
Maledetti, vi amerò (To Love the Damned, 1980), La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981), Notti e nebbie (TV, 1984), Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988), La domenica specialmente (ep. La neve sul fuoco; Especially on Sunday, ep. The Snow on the Fire, 1991), Pasolini,
un delitto italiano (Pasolini, an Italian Crime, 1995), Scarpette bianche (mm, doc., TV, 1996), I cento passi (The Hundred Steps, 2000), La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth,
2003), Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti (Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide, 2005), Sanguepazzo (Wild Blood, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Marco Tullio Giordana
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Vincenzo Caretti, Marco Tullio Giordana
fotografia/cinematography Pino Pinori
montaggio/film editing Sergio Nuti
musica/music Franco Borni
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Flavio Bucci (Riccardo), Franco Bizzoccoli (il partigiano/Partisan), Agnes De Nobecourt
(Guya), Stefano Manca (Carlino), Anna Miserocchi (la madre/Mother), Biagio Pelligra
(il commissario/Police Commissioner), Alfredo Pea (Vincenzo), David Riondino
(Beniamino), Micaela Pignatelli (Letizia)
produttori/producers Elda Ferri, Mario Gallo
produzione/production Società Cooperativa Jean Vigo, Film Alpha, Raidue
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Vincenzo Caretti, Marco Tullio Giordana
fotografia/cinematography Pino Pinori
montaggio/film editing Sergio Nuti
musica/music Franco Borni
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Flavio Bucci (Riccardo), Franco Bizzoccoli (il partigiano/Partisan), Agnes De Nobecourt
(Guya), Stefano Manca (Carlino), Anna Miserocchi (la madre/Mother), Biagio Pelligra
(il commissario/Police Commissioner), Alfredo Pea (Vincenzo), David Riondino
(Beniamino), Micaela Pignatelli (Letizia)
produttori/producers Elda Ferri, Mario Gallo
produzione/production Società Cooperativa Jean Vigo, Film Alpha, Raidue