Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 35'
Now that Michele Augello is resting in the cemetery at Sannicandro Garganico, surrounded by the funerary-niches in white marble and the cicadas’ song, visits by strangers drawn by his fame are practically down to zero. The only one still disturbing him is father Vincenzo Palmieri, the vicar of this small village in Puglia, his friend/enemy in life, buried in front of him, who still reproaches him for his past as a people’s healer and mystic. A charismatic but reserved and generous figure, recalled by those who knew him, by those who witnessed his miracles, by those who were healed by him. A character still loved today, the expression of an approach to a folk-nature transcendence, of a millenary but nevertheless still relevant mysticism, in which magic and religion end up by going hand-in-hand, in which the irrational permeates everyday life.
Biography
film director
Grazia Tricarico
Grazia Tricarico (Sannicandro Garganico, Foggia, Italy, 1986) graduated in literature and philosophy in Milan, specialising in history of cinema. At the same time she worked as editor for small production companies and collaborated at short-films, feature films, trailers and teasers as a screenwriter and assistant director. In 2008 she began to work with video-art at Studio Festi, creating some video installations in China for the occasion of the Olympic Games. In 2009 she directed the short-film Brightbox and the following year she was admitted to the film-directing course at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome. She is currently working on the science-fiction short film Bios and on preproduction for the drama Mona Blonde.
FILMOGRAFIA
Brightbox (cm, 2009), L’arte marziale (cm, 2010), Michele nella terra (cm, doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
«Milant vac vitalot» (cit.)
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Grazia Tricarico
fotografia/cinematography Francesco Segré
montaggio/film editing Ilenia Zincone
interpreti/cast Angelo Augello, Antonietta La Piccirella, Incoronata La Piccirella, Teresa Martucci, Vincenzo Ruscitto, Annarita Augello, Mario Augello, Angela Cipriani, Giuseppe Basile, Antonietta D’Andrea, Rosa D’Andrea, Carolina D’Andrea, Maria Pacilli, Carla Tricarico, Rosa Patrini, Leonardo Di Lella, Angelo Raffaele Lombardi, Costantino Stefania (voce di/voice of don Vincenzo Palmieri), Michele Squeo (voce di/voice of Michele Augello)
fotografia/cinematography Francesco Segré
montaggio/film editing Ilenia Zincone
interpreti/cast Angelo Augello, Antonietta La Piccirella, Incoronata La Piccirella, Teresa Martucci, Vincenzo Ruscitto, Annarita Augello, Mario Augello, Angela Cipriani, Giuseppe Basile, Antonietta D’Andrea, Rosa D’Andrea, Carolina D’Andrea, Maria Pacilli, Carla Tricarico, Rosa Patrini, Leonardo Di Lella, Angelo Raffaele Lombardi, Costantino Stefania (voce di/voice of don Vincenzo Palmieri), Michele Squeo (voce di/voice of Michele Augello)
