Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 73'
This film isn’t about the history of Italian industry, its economic progress, its delays or its missed opportunities. It’s about the reality behind it. It’s a story of faces, workers’ faces, a portrait of the people who have populated and still populate Italian factories. It’s a tribute to their work, their gestures, their professionalism. It’s a mosaic of voices and dialects that ranges from southern to northern Italy, from large factories to small ones, and it tries to create an image of Italy.
Biography
film director
Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini (Rome, Italy, 1961) is the daughter of film director Luigi. She debuted in 1984 with Pianoforte and then moved to France, where she made Annabelle partagée (1991), selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at Cannes, and the documentary Elsa Morante (1997). She then made a film adaptation of La coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo entitled Le parole di mio padre (2001). She next made the documentary Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo (2002), Mi piace lavorare - Mobbing (2004), which won in the Berlinale Panorama Award, and A casa nostra (2006), presented at the Film Festival in Rome. He then participated in competition at Venice with Lo spazio bianco (2009) and Un giorno speciale (2012). In 2015 she won at the Torino Film Festival a Cipputi Award for her lifetime achievements.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pianoforte (1984), La lumière du lac (1988), Annabelle partagée (1991), Elsa Morante (mm, doc., 1997), Shakespeare a Palermo (1998), Le parole di mio padre (2001), Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo (doc., 2002), Mi piace lavorare - Mobbing (2004), A casa nostra (2006), In fabbrica (doc., 2007), Lo spazio bianco (2009), Un giorno speciale (2012), Gomorra - La serie (serie tv/tv series, 2 ep., 2014), Amori che non sanno stare al mondo (2017).
Declaration
film director
“I think it’s right to look back in the past, but without regretting it. The Italy that I used to see through the eyes the greatest directors would always seem to lead to regret. The past is used against a present that one supposes to be unsatisfactory. This documentary is based on a double theme: the workers and the directors that documented them. Both have been our country’s salt and I think we owe them a continuous effort in remembering them so they can help us know who we are and to help us go on.”
Cast
& Credits
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Francesca Comencini, Michele Astori
fotografie/photographs
Valerio Azzali
montaggio/film editor
Massimo Fiocchi
musica/music
Edoardo Vianello, Ida Kelarova, Chat Noir
suono/sound
Daniela Bassani, Marzia Cordò
produzione/production
Rai Cinema, Off Side
Francesca Comencini, Michele Astori
fotografie/photographs
Valerio Azzali
montaggio/film editor
Massimo Fiocchi
musica/music
Edoardo Vianello, Ida Kelarova, Chat Noir
suono/sound
Daniela Bassani, Marzia Cordò
produzione/production
Rai Cinema, Off Side
