Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 61'
The dressing room seems to be waiting for the man to enter and to know what is about to happen: the customary ritual of putting on makeup, repeating one of the monologues of the show, Richard III, whose ghosts seem to float in the room, as the voices of the other actors can be heard in the dressing room next door as they prepare for the performance. The man, who is the director the mise-en-scène and actor, retraces its genesis, all the way back to the evening before, the dress rehearsal. All of a sudden, he is brought back to the present by a voice: “Showtime!” The curtain goes up.
Biography
film director
Giancarlo Scarchilli
after living in London from 1974 to 1976, he returned to Italy and collaborated with Sergio Citti and Vittorio Gassman. Collaborating as a director and/or screenwriter, he took part in Due pezzi di pane (1978), Il minestrone (1980), Di padre in figlio (1982), Sogni e bisogni (1985), and Gassman Story (1986). He helped write Gassman's theatrical play Fa male il teatro and during the 1980s he made documentaries and commercials. He debuted in film with Mi fai un favore (Stella's Favor, 1997), followed by I fobici (1999) and Scrivilo sui muri (2007). In 2010, he directed the documentary Vittorio racconta Gassman: una vita da mattatore, presented at the Venice Film Festival and the winner of a Silver Ribbon. In 2013, he made Essere Riccardo... e gli altri, presented at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mi fai un favore (1996), I fobici (1999), Scrivilo sui muri (2007), Vittorio racconta Gassman: una vita da mattatore (doc, 2010), Essere Riccardo... e gli altri (2013), The King of Paparazzi - La vera storia (doc, 2018), Storie di straordinaria ordinarietà (cm, 2019).
Declaration
film director
“What convinced me to make this documentary about the work of Alessandro Gassmann was primarily my amazement as a spectator every time I see how talented he is as a stage director. It struck me as both proper and useful to try to document the work of an important exponent of Italian theatre who, still today, is mainly considered an actor. I think that his real talent, in theatre, is as a director and artistic director, with all due respect for his talent onstage and the sensitivity of his interpretation.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SOGGETTO
Giancarlo Scarchilli
FOTOGRAFIA
Francesco Pennica
MONTAGGIO
Brunella Perrotta
MUSICA
Pivio, Aldo De Scalzi
SUONO
Gianluca Scarlata
INTERPRETI
Alessandro Gassmann, Manrico Gammarota, Paila Pavese, Mauro Marino, Sabrina Knaflitz, Sergio Meogrossi, Marco Cavicchioli, Giacomo Rosselli, Marta Richeldi, Emanuele Basso
PRODUTTORI
Giancaro Scarchilli, Massimo Spano
PRODUZIONE
Michelangelo Film
DISTRIBUZIONE
Istituto Luce
CONTATTI
Giancarlo Scarchilli
giancarlo.scarchilli@gmail.com
Giancarlo Scarchilli
FOTOGRAFIA
Francesco Pennica
MONTAGGIO
Brunella Perrotta
MUSICA
Pivio, Aldo De Scalzi
SUONO
Gianluca Scarlata
INTERPRETI
Alessandro Gassmann, Manrico Gammarota, Paila Pavese, Mauro Marino, Sabrina Knaflitz, Sergio Meogrossi, Marco Cavicchioli, Giacomo Rosselli, Marta Richeldi, Emanuele Basso
PRODUTTORI
Giancaro Scarchilli, Massimo Spano
PRODUZIONE
Michelangelo Film
DISTRIBUZIONE
Istituto Luce
CONTATTI
Giancarlo Scarchilli
giancarlo.scarchilli@gmail.com
