30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/CLASSICS

MANILA PALOMA BLANCA

by Daniele Segre
Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 90'


Carlo, a forty-year-old former actor who has frequently been hospitalized in psychiatric wards, lives by his wits between cafeterias and public dormitories. One day, he meets Sara and finally starts a concrete relationship, despite his decision to keep his past a secret. After meeting an old friend by chance, he rediscovers his passion for the theatre and begins to write a new play. Sara’s affair with Carlo gets her involved in the project as well, but despite herself she becomes a victim of the man’s madness.

Biography

film director

Daniele Segre

(Alessandria, 1952 - Torino, 2024) began his career in photography, before debuting as a director in 1976 with the documentary Perché droga. He published the book of photographs Ragazzi di stadio (then transformed into a documentary feature) and founded the production company I Cammelli. In 1983, he directed the feature-length fiction movie Testadura, which competed in Venice. It was followed by other films, including Manila Paloma BlancaVecchie, Mitraglia e il verme, Conversazione a Porto, Morire di lavoroLisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino, presented in Venice in 2010, and Sic Fiat Italia, which was presented at the 2011 Torino Film Festival, where in 2014 he also presented Il viaggio di Carlo, in 2015 Morituri and in 2016 Nome di battaglia donna. In 2018 the Festival screend Ragazzi di stadio, quarant’anni dopo, a reprise of the famous 1980's documentary.

FILMOGRAFIA

Perché droga (coregia/codirector Franco Barbaro, mm, doc., 1976), Il potere deve essere bianconero (cm, doc, 1978), Ragazzi di stadio (mm, doc., 1980), Testadura (1983), Vite di ballatoio (mm, doc., 1984), Manila Paloma Blanca (1992), Come prima, più di prima, t’amerò (mm, doc., 1995), Sto lavorando? (mm, doc., 1998), Via due macelli, Italia - Sinistra senza unità (2000), Volti - Viaggio nel futuro d’Italia (tv, doc., 2002), Vecchie (2002), Mitraglia e il verme (2004), Conversazione a Porto (doc., 2006), Morire di lavoro (doc., 2008), Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino (mm, doc., 2010), Je m’appelle Morando - Alfabeto Morandini (mm, doc., 2010), Sic Fiat Italia (doc., 2011), Il viaggio di Carlo (cm, doc., 2014), Morituri (2015), Nome di battaglia donna (doc., 2016), Ragazzi di stadio, quarant’anni dopo (doc., 2018), Tonino De Bernardi, un tempo, un incontro (doc, 2023), Bruno Segre, l’uomo che non si arrende (doc, 2024).

Declaration

film director

“The contrast between the rules of everyday life and Carlo’s non-life provokes trouble, destabilization and situations at the limit of madness. A madness which isn’t necessarily pathological, but which is due to the excess of sensitivity with which Carlo Carboni expresses his way of existing and communicating. It’s a very fragile situation, in which a man finds himself totally exposed and open to every kind of violence in a world which lives according to other rules and rhythms.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Daniele Segre
soggetto/story Daniele Segre, Carlo Colnaghi
sceneggiatura/screenplay Davide Ferrario, Daniele Segre
montaggio/film editor Claudio Cormio
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design Elena Bosio
musica/music Giuseppe Napoli
suono/sound Marco Tidu
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Carlo Colnaghi (Carlo Carbone), Lou Castel (Guido), Alessandra Comerio (Sara Treves), Eugenia D’Aquino (Esther), Leone Ferrero (Paolo Farina), Laura Panti (Bianca Treves), Barbara Valmorin (Maria)
produttori/producers Mario Alessio, Daniele Segre
produzione/production I Cammelli
distribuzione/distribution Istituto Luce
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