29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
CINEMA E CINEMI
ITALIANI ALL'OPERA! - GLI ITALIANI IN ARGENTINA
by Franco Brogi Taviani
Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 78'
Italian emigration as recounted through the journey of a young opera singer in search of fame and fortune in present-day Argentina. The world of opera becomes the backdrop for sweeping epic deeds which reconstruct the feeling of what it means to be emigrants, men and women uprooted from their own world. “I wanted to give poetic voice to the grand migratory flow of Italians to Argentina, in a film in which fiction is a narrative element set in reality. I gathered testimony of the past, making room for opera and present-day aspirations in order to understand the millions of men and women who abandoned their homeland to construct a new one, without ever forgetting their origins for a single moment. Opera was the “soundtrack” which became the backdrop to the migratory waves and it has always been one of the strongest ties of affection and culture with that far-away and beloved land across the Atlantic. By interweaving opera into the narrative fabric, I was able to give the film spectacular and emotional impact, mixing passion and irony.”
Biography
film director
Franco Brogi Taviani
Franco Brogi Taviani (Florence, Italy, 1941) began his career collaborating as assistant director and editor with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. He then realized TV films, including La sostituzione and Modì - Vita di Amedeo Modigliani. He has directed almost one hundred documentaries, winning a Silver Ribbon and a Golden Osella in Venice, as well as numerous communications films, which have received awards such as the Silver Lion in Cannes and the Golden Carosello in Rome. His films include Masoch, which was presented in Venice, and Forse Dio è malato, inspired by the book by Walter Veltroni and the winning film at the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. As a screenwriter, he won a Solinas award in 2003 and in 2006 he debuted in literature with Il tesoro; his second novel, Porte segrete, will soon be published.
FILMOGRAFIA
La sostituzione (tv, 1970), Masoch (1980), Modí - Vita di Amedeo Modigliani (tv, 1989), Un fallito di successo. Incontro con Ennio De Concini (2002), Forse Dio è malato (2007), Italiani all’opera! - Gli italiani in Argentina (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Franco Brogi Taviani
soggetto/story
Osvaldo Alzari, Franco Brogi Taviani, Giancarlo Riccio
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Franco Brogi Taviani, Noelia Carrizo D’Alessandro, Alessandro Luciano
fotografia/cinematography
Marianjeles Casella, Maximiliano Taricco
montaggio/film editing
Francesco di Stefano
musica/music
Matilde Vitullo
suono/sound
Javier Farina
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales
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