Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 100'
Starting with Italy’s experience in Ethiopia, and with the collaboration of historians, anthropologists and philosophers, the dramatic events of Italy’s fascist colonial past are analyzed in order to reflect on the very origins of our identity. The regime’s propaganda documentary is thus deconstructed, revealing something that was deeply submerged in the collective subconscious, albeit in a veiled manner. “The film stems from the desire to study the Italian identity by looking at its roots, which are tangled up in a fascist past that is increasingly less understood by present-day Italy. The occupation of Ethiopia became the starting point for looking at a painful period in Italian history which has been denied for too many years and which – only thanks to the fundamental work of historians such as Angelo Del Boca – the Republic of Italy has timidly started to admit. The title, which was suggested by Ida Dominijanni, also refers to a research process used by the authors: to treat the past like a subconscious saturated in repression and, like an analytical cure, to bring back into the light that which was repressed. Subjecting the Id to the dominion of the Ego.”
Biography
film director
Luca Guadagnino
Luca Guadagnino (Palermo, Italy, 1971) graduated from The Sapienza University of Rome and debuted as a director in the early 1990s. In 1999, he directed his first feature-length film, The Protagonists, which participated in Venice, where he returned in 2002 with The Love Factory #1 Tilda Swinton, followed by The Love Factory #2 Arto Lindsay - Perdoa a Beleza (2004) and The Love Factory #3 Pippo Delbono - Bisogna morire (2008), both of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2005, he made Melissa P., and in 2009 he participated in Venice in the Horizons section with Io sono l’amore, which was a great international success and was also nominated for an Oscar for best costumes.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Overpassion (cm, 1992), Il corpo di David Lynch (cm, 1992), Salvatore, un film casalingo fatto a mano (cm, 1994), Lia Rumma a Napoli (mm, doc., 1994), Algerie (cm, doc., 1995), Qui (cm, 1997), The Protagonists (1999), L’uomo risacca (cm, 2000), Au revoir (cm, 2001), The Love Factory #1 Tilda Swinton (mm, doc., 2002), Mundo Civilizado (doc., 2003), Lotus (mm, 2003), Il gigante (coregia/codirector Maria Sole Tognazzi, cm, 2004), The Love Factory #2 Arto Lindsay - Perdoa a Beleza (mm, doc., 2004), Cuoco contadino (2004), Melissa P. (2005), The First Sun (cm, 2005), The Golden Mirror (cm, 2006), Part Deux (cm, 2007), The Love Factory #3 Pippo Delbono - Bisogna morire (mm, doc., 2008), Io sono l’amore (2009), Part Deux II (2011), Inconscio italiano (doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Luca Guadagnino
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Giuppy D’Aura
fotografia/cinematography
Luca Ranzato
montaggio/film editing
Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
interpreti/cast
Angelo Del Boca, Lucia Ceci, Iain Chambers, Michela Fusaschi, Alberto Burgio, Ida Dominijanni
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
First Sun
