Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 78'
A movie comprising three separate episodes: Silhouette, the story of some Nigerian prostitutes who spend the day sitting on worn out armchairs and couches by side of the road; in Euglen & Gertian a young group of Albanians is illegally hired as cheap unskilled labor on the outskirts of town; and Self Service, where a man of Egyptian origins works by night as an illicit petrol pump attendant at a self service pump. The movie won the first edition of the Cipputi award at the 14th Festival internazionale cinema giovani in 1996.
Biography
film director
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (Rome, Italy, 1968), following in his father’s footsteps, worked very early on as a camera assistant; in 1996 he directed his first short film, Silhouette, which won him a Sacher d’oro, and which was later integrated in his feature film Terra di mezzo. After making a series of documentaries, he made Guests in 1998, another story on immigration that received an award in Venice, followed by Roman Summer (2000), more along the lines of a comedy. The success with the critics followed his two movies on destructive and obsessive love stories, The Embalmer (2002), winner of the David di Donatello award for best script, and First Love (2004). His true consecration came with Gomorrah (2008), an adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s book, and Reality (2012), both of which have been awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Silhouette (cm, 1996), Terra di mezzo (1996), Bienvenido espirito santo (mm, doc., 1996), Il caso di forza maggiore (cm, 1998), Ospiti (1998), Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni (mm, doc., 1998), Estate romana (2000), L’imbalsamatore (2002), Primo amore (2004), Gomorra (2008), Reality (2012).
Declaration
film director
“I realize perfectly well that a wealthy bourgeois making a movie telling stories of immigration could raise to a few doubts. Even I would have a diffident reaction to a bourgeois director telling the stories of migrants struggling to survive. But then, after watching Terra di mezzo a few years after having made it, I think that it is possible to recognize a look that I maintained in the following movies, until my latest one. And that’s what matters: the perspective you have on things and on reality.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, scenografia, produttore/director, screenplay, production desing, producer
Matteo Garrone
fotografia/cinematography Marco Onorato
montaggio/film editing Marco Spoletini
costumi/costume design Cristina Da Rold
musica/music Filippo Bussi, Dodi Moscati
suono/sound Fabio Santesarti
interpreti/cast Ahmed Mahgoub, Euglen, Gertian, Pascal, Barbara, Tina, Mario Colasanti, Paolo Sassanelli, Guglielmo Ferraiola
produzione/production Archimede
distribuzione/distribution Tandem
fotografia/cinematography Marco Onorato
montaggio/film editing Marco Spoletini
costumi/costume design Cristina Da Rold
musica/music Filippo Bussi, Dodi Moscati
suono/sound Fabio Santesarti
interpreti/cast Ahmed Mahgoub, Euglen, Gertian, Pascal, Barbara, Tina, Mario Colasanti, Paolo Sassanelli, Guglielmo Ferraiola
produzione/production Archimede
distribuzione/distribution Tandem
