30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/CLASSICS
FURIO SCARPELLI: IL RACCONTO PRIMA DI TUTTO
by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti
Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 65'
The film presents the life and the career of Furio Scarpelli, the screenplay master who passed away in 2010. With Age he wrote some of the masterpieces of Italian cinema from the 1950s onward: from the first Totò movies to Monicelli’s Deal on Madonna Street, The Big War, and For Love and Gold; from Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned to We All Loved Each Other So Much, and The Family directed by Scola. The movie is a journey through the landscapes of the past belonging to Scarpelli’s roots in Tuscany, during which we meet his friends, colleagues, and pupils (Scola himself, Stefania Sandrelli, Paolo Virzì, Francesca Archibugi, Caterina and Masolino d’Amico); it assembles together bits of interviews and film scenes, photographs and Super 8 film from the family’s archive, conjuring the past with a faux period film that was shot for the occasion.
Biography
film director
Francesco Ranieri Martinotti
(Rome, Italy, 1959) during the 1980s won a Raitre competition with the screenplay of Singolo, a story about right-wing terrorism that became a TV movie he directed. On that occasion, he met Ettore Scola, who involved him in the activities of a writing laboratory at Cinecittà. In 1991, he wrote and directed the film series I Tarassachi, presented out of competition in Venice. With his short Overdose (1990), he won the critics' award at the Montreal Film Festival and in 1993 he made Abissinia, selected for Cannes, the Sundance Film Festival, and Cinema Giovani in Toronto, and which later won a David di Donatello award. In 1997, he wrote the screenplay of Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo, for which he was nominated for a David di Donatello award as best producer. The next movies he directed were Branchie (1998), Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo (2007), and La seconda volta non si scorda mai (2008). He also wrote the screenplays for various fiction movies that aired on Rai Uno (L’assalto, La notte di Duisburg, Comboni, Il bambino sull’acqua). In 2012, he made the documentary Furio Scarpelli: il racconto prima di tutto, presented at the Torino Film Festival and nominated for a Silver Ribbon. In 2015, his documentary Il segreto d’Otello participated at the Berlin Film festival, and half a million spectators watched Barbieri d’Italia (2016) on Raitre. Since 2015, he has been the president of the National Association of Film Writers (ANAC).
FILMOGRAFIA
I taràssachi (co-regia di Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano, 1989), Singolo (1989), Overdose (co-regia di Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano, cm, 1990), Abissinia (1993), Branchie (1999), Un altro mondo è possibile (registi vari, 2001), Lettere dalla Palestina (registi vari, doc, 2002), Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo (2007), La seconda volta non si scorda mai (2008), Fuori Scarpelli: il racconto prima di tutto (doc, 2012), Il segreto d'Otello (doc, 2015), Barbieri d'Italia (doc, 2016), L’onda lunga - Storia extra-ordinaria di un’associazione (doc, 2021), La donna che riapriva i teatri (doc, mm, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“Thanks to a few inedited interviews, including one with Giovanni Monaco, we were able to convey not only the nature of Scarpelli’s personality and the sharing environment in which Italian postwar cinema developed, but also what he was able to instill in his students.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Francesco Ranieri Martinotti
sceneggiatura/screenplay Giacomo Scarpelli, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti fotografia/cinematography Davide Manca
montaggio/film editing Nico Capogna
musica/music Puccio Pucci
suono/sound Andrea Lepri
interpreti/cast Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Ettore Scola, Stefania Sandrelli, Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì, Caterina d’Amico, Masolino d’Amico, Daniele Scavolini, Riccardo Pangallo
produttore/producer Laurentina Guidotti
produzione/production Iterfilm
sceneggiatura/screenplay Giacomo Scarpelli, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti fotografia/cinematography Davide Manca
montaggio/film editing Nico Capogna
musica/music Puccio Pucci
suono/sound Andrea Lepri
interpreti/cast Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Ettore Scola, Stefania Sandrelli, Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì, Caterina d’Amico, Masolino d’Amico, Daniele Scavolini, Riccardo Pangallo
produttore/producer Laurentina Guidotti
produzione/production Iterfilm
