Country: Italy
Year: 1985
Duration: 30'
Maurizio Zaccaro met Augusto Tretti, little-known master of Italian cinema, in his villa by the Lago di Garda in 1985. With them, a university student who was writing a dissertation on Tretti; she would accompany the aging filmmaker on long walks in the countryside and visit the places where the keepsakes from his movies were stored. Tretti used to speak frankly, he was blunt and amusing when he discussed his films, how he got to the world of cinema by chance, and the countless production ordeals it took to complete his masterpieces La legge della tromba and Il potere.
Biography
film director
Maurizio Zaccaro
Maurizio Zaccaro (Milan, Italy, 1952), after graduating from the Milan Film School in 1977, made the short film Overkill, receiving an award at Oberhausen. He then went to the film school Ipotesi Cinema, which brought him to making In coda alla coda in 1988. He won a David di Donatello in 1991 for Where the Night Begins, and a second one in 1999 for Un uomo per bene. He directed many TV movies and miniseries from 2000 to 2011, and the documentary film The Piccolo Theatre (2009), participating at the Venice Film Festival, just like Un foglio bianco (2011). Between 2013 and 2016 he took part to the Torino Film Festival with the documentary Adelante petroleros - L’oro nero dell’Ecuador (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015) and Human Happiness (2016).
FILMOGRAFIA
In coda della coda (1988), Kalkstein - La valle di pietra (1992), L’articolo 2 (1993), Il carniere (1996), La missione (1997), Cristallo di rocca (1998), Un uomo perbene (1999), I ragazzi della via Pal (tv, 2002), Al di là delle frontiere (tv, 2003), Mafalda di Savoia (tv, 2005), ‘O professore (tv, 2006), Lo smemorato di Collegno (tv, 2008), I nove semi (l’India di Vandana Shiva) (2009), A testa alta (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015), La felicità umana (2016), Nour (2019).
Declaration
film director
“Augusto Tretti, over sixty years old. Smart, ironic, imaginative, friendly, wry, maybe too wry as a filmmaker, maybe somewhat inconvenient too. He made four movies altogether. He lived alone in his home by the Lago di Garda: almost nobody knew him. And yet…”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Maurizio Zaccaro
interprete/cast
Augusto Tretti
contatti/contacts
Cineteca di Bologna
Carmen Accaputo
carmen.accaputo@cineteca.bologna.it
www.cinetecadibologna.it
Maurizio Zaccaro
interprete/cast
Augusto Tretti
contatti/contacts
Cineteca di Bologna
Carmen Accaputo
carmen.accaputo@cineteca.bologna.it
www.cinetecadibologna.it
