Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 71'
the missing piece In Fiat, as in the Agnelli family, for many years obedience and respect for the hierarchy have been of utmost importance. This has caused a chain reaction of great suffering in the family and has also indirectly affected the company, both of which are dominated by the legend of the Avvocato. “What right did I have to violate the privacy of a family which has made discretion its guiding rule? But was it right that this family, which has influenced the economical and social development of Italy for over a century, refused to establish relations with the country? And what could I tell about myself through the story of this family? It seems to me that, in the end, the theme of repression, which has become so essential, involves all of us. Not just because many families have members who are considered an embarrassment, or have suffered deaths which are too painful and which they prefer to forget, but also because the bad habit of not coming to terms with one’s own past is a characteristic of our country: and this might be one of the reasons for the paralysis which for years now seems to be bogging down Italy.”
Biography
film director
Giovanni Piperno
(Rome, 1964) worked as a photographer and assistant cameraman in movies and commercials; in 1997, he began making TV programs and documentaries. His films include L’esplosione, which won the Doc competition at the 2003 TFF and was nominated for a David di Donatello; This Is My Sister, which won the Avanti! award at the 2006 TFF; and Cimap! Centoitalianimattiapechino, which was presented at Locarno and won the 2009 Libero Bizzarri award. Il pezzo mancante (2010), about the Agnelli family, won the Cinema Doc competition at the TFF, while his next movie Le cose belle (2012), co-directed with Agostino Ferrente, participated at the Venice Film Festival and later won twenty-five national and international awards. The collective film 9x10 novanta (2014), produced by the Istituto Luce for its ninetieth anniversary, participated at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and that same year he collaborated with Antonietta De Lillo on the documentary Let’s Go, out-of-competition at the 2014 TFF. In 2015, he presented the short films Se avessi le parole and Quasi eroi at the Rome Film Fest; this latter movie also won the Silver Ribbon for best short film. In 2017, he made the video installation L’energia degli italiani for the Italian pavilion at the Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan, and in 2018, the web series Ogni santo 23. In 2020, he presented the short Come si scrive ti amo in coreano in Rome and that same year he taught documentary directing at the Gian Maria Volonté Film School. In 2021 he presented Cipria.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ebrei in Sudafrica (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, doc, 1992), Black Taxi (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, 1993), Mosè a Bombay (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, doc, 1994), Bananine unipolari (cm, doc, 1997), Il mio nome è Nico Cirasola (mm, doc, 1998), Intervista a mia madre (coregia Agostino Ferrente, mm, doc, 1999), Verdi Suprême (cm, doc, 2002), L’esplosione (doc, 2003), This Is My Sister (mm, doc, 2006), Cimap! Centoitalianimattiapechino (doc, 2008), La danza delle api (coregia Giulio Cederna, mm, doc), Il pezzo mancante (doc, 2010), Le cose belle (coregia Agostino Ferrente, doc, 2012), Miracolo italiano (ep. di 9x10 novanta, 2014), Chiedi a papà (serie tv, doc, 2015), Almost Heroes (cm, 2015), Viale Giorgio Morandi (2017), Lamiya (cm, 2019), Voci a domicilio (cm, 2019), Come si scrive ti amo in coreano (cm, 2019), Cipria (2021), Sedici millimetri alla rivoluzione (doc, 2023).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Giovanni Piperno
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Giulio Cederna, Giovanni Piperno
fotografia/cinematography
Giovanni Piperno, Raoul Torresi
montaggio/film editing
Paolo Petrucci
musica/music
Rinneradio
suono/sound
Maximilien Gobiet
interpreti/cast
Elisabetta Pedrazzi (la voce narrante/Narrator), Gelasio Gaetani Lovatelli, Taki Theodoracopulos, Vendeline Von Bredow, Giulia Graglia, Nicola Lazzari, Marella Caracciolo Chia, Giovanni Sanjust Di Teulada, Klaus Von Bulow, Afdera Franchetti, Ira Von Fürstenberg, Marco Bava, Marco Bernardini, Pietro Perotti, Marta Vio, Daphne Vio Ninchi, Bert Hellinger, Giuseppe Lancia, Roberto Prinzio
produttori/producers
Gabriella Buontempo, Massimo Martino
produzione/production
Goodtime
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales
Cinecittà Luce
