Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 70'
In a hunting cabin, a group of elderly local men recall the life of Mario “de’ Marcella,” a man who for over sixty years lived a life of seclusion in a tufa cave. It isn’t clear what led this curt and eccentric man to lead such a solitary existence, perhaps something that had happened in his childhood, something mysterious and tragic. Whenever a hunter came upon the man, he would simply call him “il Solengo,” like the male boar which lives isolated from the herd.
Biography
film director
Alessio Rigo de Righi
(Jackson, MS, USA, 1986) studied film and literature in New York and Rome, after which he moved to Buenos Aires and made the shorts La gracia del mar (2010) and Marfil (2012). His documentary Catedral, which he shot in Madrid in 2009 with Aliocha, received numerous international awards. He co-directed with Zoppis the documentart short Belva nera (2012) and Il Solengo (2015), Best Italian documentary at the Torino Film Festival. Re Granchio had its premiere at the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
FILMOGRAFIA
Catedral (coregia/codirector Aliocha, doc., cm, 2009), La gracia del mar (cm, 2010), Henry’s Love (cm, 2012), Marfil (cm, 2012), Belva nera (cm, doc., 2013; co-regia Matteo Zoppis), Il Solengo (doc., 2015, co-regia Matteo Zoppis), Re Granchio (2021, co-regia Matteo Zoppis).
Matteo Zoppis
(Rome, 1986) studied law in Rome and Paris, and then directing in New York. In the United States he began to work as a director of photography, cameraman and video editor. He has made various shorts, including All Tears Drop (2010) and My Wildest Dark (2011). His collaboration with Alessio Rigo de Righi began in 2013 with the documentary short Belva nera, presented at the Rome Film Festival and which then received the Fresnes Prisoners’ Award and a special mention in the short film section at Cinéma du réel in Paris. The two directors directed thenand Il Solengo (2015), Best Italian documentary at the Torino Film Festival. Re Granchio had its premiere at the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
FILMOGRAFIA
All Tears Drop (cm, 2010), My Wildest Dark (cm, 2011), Belva nera (cm, doc., 2013, co-regia Alessio Rigo de Righi), Il Solengo (doc., 2015, co-regia Alessio Rigo de Righi), Re Granchio (2021, co-regia Alessio Rigo de Righi).
Declaration
film director
“By using scraps of 16mm film, we produced a small short narrated by one of the people being interviewed; and during this operation we realized that what was important wasn’t so much the truth about Mario as his surrounding world and thus, somehow, the people we interviewed. That group of hunters revealed more authenticity than any confession and it made us reflect on the way truth is neither the only nor the main ingredient of a story.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
fotografia/cinematography
Simone D’Arcangelo
montaggio/film editing
Andres Pepe Estrada, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
musica/music
Vittorio Giampietro
suono/sound
Marcos Molina Jaime, Lorenzo Corvi
interpreti/cast
Bruno di Giovanni, Ercole Colnago, Giovanni Morichelli, Ugo Farnetti, Orso Pietrini, Renato Sterpa, Lanfranco Mazzaferri, Eccelsio Cassanelli, Enrico Pasquali
produttore/producer
Tommaso Bertani
produzione/production
Ring Film, Coda Rossa Film
Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
fotografia/cinematography
Simone D’Arcangelo
montaggio/film editing
Andres Pepe Estrada, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
musica/music
Vittorio Giampietro
suono/sound
Marcos Molina Jaime, Lorenzo Corvi
interpreti/cast
Bruno di Giovanni, Ercole Colnago, Giovanni Morichelli, Ugo Farnetti, Orso Pietrini, Renato Sterpa, Lanfranco Mazzaferri, Eccelsio Cassanelli, Enrico Pasquali
produttore/producer
Tommaso Bertani
produzione/production
Ring Film, Coda Rossa Film
