Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 75'
With the burial niches of a cemetery as a backdrop, the lives of three middle-aged women intersect; their names are Nora, Aurora and Olimpia. An old maid, a divorcee and a widow: three lives suspended between resignation and waiting. Three lives that risk necrosis. During a night-time vigil organized by the cemetery, illuminated by votive lights and a neon sign that says “Rest in peace,” the three women become the protagonists of a phantasmagorical mise-en-scène of their respective and very personal anxieties.
Biography
film director
Daniele Segre
Daniele Segre (Alessandria, Italy, 1952) began his career in photography, before debuting as a director in 1976 with the documentary Perché droga. He published the book of photographs Ragazzi di stadio and founded the production company I Cammelli. In 1983, he directed the feature-length fiction movie Testadura, which competed in Venice. It was followed by other films, including Manila Paloma Blanca, Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino, presented in Venice in 2010, and Sic Fiat Italia, which was presented at the 2011 Torino Film Festival, where in 2014 he also presented Il viaggio di Carlo, in 2015 Morituri and in 2016 Nome di battaglia donna.
FILMOGRAFIA
Perché droga (coregia/codirector Franco Barbaro, mm, doc., 1976), Ragazzi di stadio (mm, doc., 1980), Testadura (1983), Vite di ballatoio (mm, doc., 1984), Manila Paloma Blanca (1992), Come prima, più di prima, t’amerò (mm, doc., 1995), Sto lavorando? (mm, doc., 1998), Via due macelli, Italia - Sinistra senza unità (2000), Volti - Viaggio nel futuro d’Italia (tv, doc., 2002), Vecchie (2002), Mitraglia e il verme (2004), Conversazione a Porto (doc., 2006), Morire di lavoro (doc., 2008), Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino (mm, doc., 2010), Je m’appelle Morando - Alfabeto Morandini (mm, doc., 2010), Sic Fiat Italia (doc., 2011), Il viaggio di Carlo (cm, doc., 2014), Morituri (2015), Nome di battaglia donna (doc., 2016), Ragazzi di stadio, quarant’anni dopo (doc., 2018)
Declaration
film director
“Morituri is the third part of a trilogy composed of two other films produced by the company I Cammelli: Old Women (2002), with Barbara Valmorin, and Mitraglia e il verme (2004), with Antonello Fassari and Stefano Corsi. I wanted to show the contemporary human condition, represented by three characters at the limits of the surreal. Each character carries around her own story and her own solitude, and ends up in a suspended and abstract dimension which makes the story universal and timeless.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, story, screenplay, film editing
Daniele Segre
fotografia/cinematography
Luca Bigazzi
scenografia/production design
Elena Bosio
suono/sound
Edgar Iacolenna
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Tiziana Catalano (Aurora), Donatella Bartoli (Nora), Luigina Dagostino (Olimpia)
produzione/production
I Cammelli
contatti/contacts
I Cammelli
Daniele Segre
icammelli.torino@gmail.com
www.danielesegre.it
Daniele Segre
fotografia/cinematography
Luca Bigazzi
scenografia/production design
Elena Bosio
suono/sound
Edgar Iacolenna
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Tiziana Catalano (Aurora), Donatella Bartoli (Nora), Luigina Dagostino (Olimpia)
produzione/production
I Cammelli
contatti/contacts
I Cammelli
Daniele Segre
icammelli.torino@gmail.com
www.danielesegre.it
