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UNO SCAMPOLO DI PARADISO

A SCRAP OF PARADISE

Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 72'


Settimo Torinese. An old building surveyor talks about the houses of the
first immigrants, who came from the Veneto and wanted a detached
house, and the apartment complexes of the immigrants of the 1960s,
who came from southern Italy with their cardboard suitcases. Even the
old parish priest talks about the transformations in the city, the hopes
of the young people, his astonishment at a world he no longer
recognizes. Story leads to story: from the story of the engineer who built
one of Europe’s largest purification plants to the infinite stories of
yesterday and today that intermingle in one of the many suburbs.

“I have always lived in the suburbs. When I was small I went to a
school in prefabricated apartments, the immigrants lived in houses that
were in ruins and the traffic was congested. Over the past twenty years,
thousands of apartments have been built, instead of the old factories
there are museums and media libraries. The main street has become
the thoroughfare of thousands of people, the new neighborhoods don’t
look so run-down anymore, the people say hello to one another, they
chat. Maybe we have cut a scrap of paradise for ourselves in this city.”

Biography

film director

Gabriele Vacis

Gabriele Vacis (Settimo Torinese, Italy, 1955) is one of the founders of the Laboratorio Teatro Settimo. He has staged numerous theatrical shows, including Elementi di struttura del sentimento (1985), La storia di Romeo e Giulietta (1991), Villeggiatura: smanie, avventure e ritorno (1993), Novecento (1994), Fenicie (2000),
Macbeth Concerto (2001) and Martirio (2005), and has also directed various operas. From 1993 to 1996 he was the coordinator of the acting course at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan. Since 1995 he has been teaching literature and oral narration at the Holden School in Torino. His theater has always paid special attention to films, like the theatrical adaptation of Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949)
which he made in 1986. He debute in film directing with the short film Tu come lo vedi Dio? in 2006. Uno scampolo di paradiso is his first feature documentary.

FILMOGRAFIA

Tu come lo vedi Dio? (cm, 2006),
Uno scampolo di paradiso (2008).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Gabriele Vacis
fotografia/cinematography Michele Fornasero
montaggio/film editing Michele Fornasero, Francesca Politano
suono/sound Davide Favargiotti, Diego Lisfera
interpreti/cast Gabriele Vacis, Francesco Vacca, Laura Curino, Claudio Lucato, Gabriele Lucato, Canonico Guglielmo Pistone, Stefania De Razza, Simone Vergnano,
Roberto Vergnano, Pier Andrea Palumbo, Vittorio Frigerio
produttori/producers Cosimo Ammendolia, Antonia Spalviero
produzione/production Multiplay s.r.l., Indyca
coproduzione/coproduction Città di Settimo Torinese, Fondazione Esperienze di cultura metropolitana
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