30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/GRAN PREMIO TORINO - ETTORE SCOLA
ROMANZO DI UN GIOVANE POVERO
by Ettore Scola
Country: Italy
Year: 1995
Duration: 120'
Vincenzo, an unemployed young man from Rome, still lives with his mother; his life is colorless and frustrating, as he navigates economic problems and faded love stories. He spends his time in the bar downstairs with Mr. Bartoloni, an elderly man who has a fat and overbearing wife he professes to hate. One evening, the woman dies after falling from her balcony and Mr. Bartoloni accuses poor Vincenzo of having murdered the woman and then stealing one million lira. Actually, Vincenzo earned the money as a down payment on his new job, but since he doesn’t have a believable alibi he becomes prosecuting attorney Moscati’s prime suspect. Maybe Vincenzo has been framed by Bartoloni; maybe he really is a cool, impassible murderer. The truth is too complex to comprehend and Moscati begins the trial without having the faintest idea what the true story is.
Biography
film director
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (Trevico, Avellino, Italy, 1931 - Rome, Italy, 2016), after collaborating with Age and Scarpelli on the screenplays of major movies, debuted as a director in 1964 with Let’s Talk About Women, starring Vittorio Gassman (one of his favorite actors), Nino Manfredi, and Marcello Mastroianni. Between the late 1960s and throughout the ’70s, he made a name for himself as one of the maestros of Italian cinema, as he continued making comedies, but also struck melancholy and dramatic notes with his masterpieces. In 2013, ten years after his last film, he directed the tribute to Fellini Che strano chiamarsi Federico. In 2012 he received the 30th TFF Gran Premio Torino.
FILMOGRAFIA
Se permettete parliamo di donne (1964), La congiuntura (1964), L’arcidiavolo (1965), Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Dramma della gelosia. Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970), Permette? Rocco Papaleo (1971), La più bella serata della mia vita (1972), Trevico-Torino - Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam (1973), C’eravamo tanto amati (1974), Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976), Signore e signori, buonanotte (coregia/codirector Cooperativa 15 maggio, 1976), Una giornata particolare (1977), I nuovi mostri (coregia/codirectors Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, 1977), La terrazza (1979), Vorrei che volo (doc, 1982), Il mondo nuovo (1982), Ballando ballando (1983), Maccheroni (1985), La famiglia (1987), Splendor (1989), Che ora è? (1989), Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990), Mario, Maria e Mario (1993), Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995), La cena (1998), Concorrenza sleale (2001), Gente di Roma (2003), Che strano chiamarsi Federico (2013).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story Ettore Scola
sceneggiatura/screenplay Giacomo Scarpelli, Silvia Scola, Ettore Scola
fotografia/cinematography Franco Di Giacomo
musica/music Armando Trovajoli
montaggio/film editing Raimondo Crociani
scenografia/set design Luciano Ricceri
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character Rolando Ravello (Vincenzo Persico), Alberto Sordi (signor Bartoloni), Mario Carotenuto (signor Pieralisi), Isabella Ferrari (Andreina), Renato De Carmine (avv. Cantini), André Dussollier (sost. proc. Moscati)
produzione/production Mass Film, Studio El, Matopigia, Les Film Alain Sarde
distribuzione/distribution Istituto Luce
sceneggiatura/screenplay Giacomo Scarpelli, Silvia Scola, Ettore Scola
fotografia/cinematography Franco Di Giacomo
musica/music Armando Trovajoli
montaggio/film editing Raimondo Crociani
scenografia/set design Luciano Ricceri
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character Rolando Ravello (Vincenzo Persico), Alberto Sordi (signor Bartoloni), Mario Carotenuto (signor Pieralisi), Isabella Ferrari (Andreina), Renato De Carmine (avv. Cantini), André Dussollier (sost. proc. Moscati)
produzione/production Mass Film, Studio El, Matopigia, Les Film Alain Sarde
distribuzione/distribution Istituto Luce
