Country: Italy, USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 53'
Ten acts to recount the origins of Italy and its civilization. Accompanied by the music of Claudio Monteverdi, verses by the great poets of Italian literature, read by Giorgio Albertazzi, and images of the Alps and Apennines, the film is a true representation of myths and legends that traces Italian history, from the Romans to the Middle Ages, and recounts the odyssey of a man journeying to the land of his forefathers. “Anyone who has ever tried to paint a landscape, or has simply contemplated the rising sun from a hillside, will immediately understand the virtues of this film. It isn’t so much attempting to describe a particular moment, as it is to explore phenomenological potential (one of the reasons why it is important to see it on a big screen). A landscape is like the mother of a people and its culture. There is also an urgency in this story: by contemplating the divinity of nature, people and things, the film is trying to recover a dignity which I think is missing from today’s world.”
Biography
film director
Caldwell Lever
Caldwell Lever (Toronto, Canada, 1983) graduated in film studies from Ryerson University and then went on to obtain his MA in Media Studies at the New School in New York. He next produced several short films and worked as an editor for the producer Henry Less in Toronto. L’Orogenesi is the first film he has directed.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
L’orogenesi (mm, doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Caldwell Lever
fotografia/cinematography
Daniele Fermani
montaggio/film editing
Ippolito Pindemonte
costumi/costume design
Carlotta Dall’Igna
musica/music
Walter Maioli, Claudio Monteverdi, Ensemble de Organographia
suono/sound
Marco Di Vittorio, Angelo Panetta
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Giorgio Albertazzi (voce narrante/Narrator), Alessandro Laverda, Ruben Cavallari, Gabriele Bonafé, Javier Esteban Carbonell, Roberto Celva, Gabriele Mazzocchi, Francesco Saggiorato, Luca Barollo (i lupercali/Lupercalia), Daniele Mangiavacchi, Albo Bonari, Polimanti Mangiavacchi, Luchino Grappi, Andrea Giorgi, Andrea Cresti, Marcello Terenzi (i Romani/Romans), Antonio Laverda (un cavaliere/Knight), Paolo Nistri (Virgilio), Massimo Adorni (san Francesco/Saint Francis)
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Cínelevante
TFF
prizes
