Country: Italy, France
Year: 2012
Duration: 60'
Manlio is eighty-two years old. When he was forty, he left his job as a teacher to go work in a mine. But, to get to know himself and this new world better, he took on the most difficult job: timekeeper. Silvestro is sixty-one and has been working in the mine since he was twenty-three; he is the son of miners and a son of the mine. The paths of these two men, different and yet parallel, cross in 1992, when they barricade themselves for months in the San Giovanni mine in Sardinia, setting explosives in the entrance to protest the closing of the mine and the desertification of the landscape. Now that the mines have been closed and the desert advances, Manlio and Silvestro still have a message to convey to us.
Biography
film director
Giuseppe Casu
Giuseppe Casu (Cagliari, Italy, 1968) graduated in physics in 1993, and then lived between Rome, Florence and Paris, where he taught astronomy to children, screened movies in prisons and filmed the restoration of works of art. From 2001 to 2007, he studied directing and editing at the Scuola Anna Magnani in Prato, the Arscipro 35mm in Paris, and Rome’s Istituto Rossellini. He now works at the Istituto centrale per il restauro in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
Social di periferia (coregia/codirector Veronica Locatelli, cm, doc., 2001), Arcobaleno (cm, doc., 2003), Senza ferro (mm, doc., 2010), L’amore e la follia (doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“I have always been against the image of the sad miner unable to construct his own destiny. Manlio and Silvestro are the personifications of the mine, in which personal growth and discovering the power of nature and that of man become something marvelous. The closer you come to them, the more working in a mine, which seems like madness, fills up with curiosity and love.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/director, cinematography
Giuseppe Casu
soggetto/story Giuseppe Casu, Gianluca Stazi
montaggio/film editing Aline Hervé
musica/music Difondo
suono/sound Gianluca Stazi
interpreti/cast Manlio Massole, Silvestro Papinuto
produttori/producers Salvo Accorinti, Didier Zyserman
soggetto/story Giuseppe Casu, Gianluca Stazi
montaggio/film editing Aline Hervé
musica/music Difondo
suono/sound Gianluca Stazi
interpreti/cast Manlio Massole, Silvestro Papinuto
produttori/producers Salvo Accorinti, Didier Zyserman
