Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 45'
A risky pass, a useless effort to brake and the dreams of boom-time Italy end on a cliff in Versilia, along with the Lancia Aurelia of impetuous Bruno Cortona/Vittorio Gassman and poor Roberto Mariani/Jean-Luis Trintignant. This is the dramatic ending of the 1962 movie The Easy Life by Dino Risi, a cornerstone of Italian-style comedies. But the people who helped make the film and those who loved it, what do they remember about its actual realization?
Biography
film director
Gloria de Antoni
Gloria De Antoni (Udine, Italy) graduated from Dams in Bologna, after which she worked as a script supervisor, assistant director for film and theater, and journalist. As a TV host and script writer, she has worked, often in tandem with Oreste De Fornari, on the programs Magazine 3, Letti gemelli, Perdenti, La principessa sul pisello, Pacem in terris, La fonte meravigliosa, and Parliamo italiano. Always with De Fornari, she conducted for Venezia Cinema two editions of Incontri con gli autori italiani and the Radio Tre program dedicated to the Venice Film Festival. She has directed a number of documentaries, including I sentieri della Gloria (2005), dedicated to Mario Monicelli’s The Great War.
FILMOGRAFIA
I sentieri della Gloria (2005), Ritorno al Tagliamento (2006), Bottecchia, l’ultima pedalata (2008), Il perdente gentiluomo (2009), La città di Angiolina (2010), L’estate di Bruno Cortona - Castiglioncello nell'anno del Sorpasso (2012).
Declaration
film director
“I was inspired to make this documentary by the book which Oreste De Fornari wrote about The Easy Life twenty years ago, in which he analyzed it like a film-alphabet of Italy’s economic miracle. But after friends from the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo, which also includes Castiglioncello, assigned me the duty to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary with a documentary, right away I realized that the reminiscences of the people of Castiglioncello who were involved in various capacities in the filming back in the summer of ’62 would become the true subject of the film, also considering my partiality for the little stories of normal people.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Gloria De Antoni con la collaborazione di/with the collaboration of Oreste De Fornari
fotografia/cinematography Davide Del Degan
montaggio/film editing Letizia Caudullo
interpreti/cast Giancarlo Magalli, Marco Risi, Alfio Contini, Enrico Fiorentini, Ettore Scola, Nada Malanima, Paola Gassman, Mila Stanic, Edoardo Vianello, Paolo Virzì, Jean-Luis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak
produzione/production Comune di Rosignano Marittimo - Assessorato alla Cultura, Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi
fotografia/cinematography Davide Del Degan
montaggio/film editing Letizia Caudullo
interpreti/cast Giancarlo Magalli, Marco Risi, Alfio Contini, Enrico Fiorentini, Ettore Scola, Nada Malanima, Paola Gassman, Mila Stanic, Edoardo Vianello, Paolo Virzì, Jean-Luis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak
produzione/production Comune di Rosignano Marittimo - Assessorato alla Cultura, Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi
