33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/ITALIANA.DOC

RINO - LA MIA ASCIA DI GUERRA

RINO - MY HATCHET
by Andrea Zambelli
Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 55'


Andrea had a hero when he was a kid: Rino. He was a partisan, a communist, and he was different from everyone else. Rino was his mentor. For years, Andrea thought about making a movie about him, but Rino can’t tell any more stories these days: Alzheimer’s disease erased his memory. Yesterday’s hero is now an old man who needs to be looked after. Which will make this film project even more complex, profound, and painful.

Biography

film director

Andrea Zambelli

(Bergamo, 1975) participated at the 2008 Torino Film Festival and the next year at the Toronto Film Festival with From Mother to Daughter. He collaborated with Davide Ferrario on After Midnight (2003) and Primo Levi’s Journey (2005). Along with Alberto Mussolini and Luca Scaffidi, they directed Striplife, which won the Jury Special Prize, the Avanti! Award and the Gandhi Award at the 2013 Torino Film Festival. In Turin he also presented Rino - La mia ascia di guerra and Irrawaddy mon amour, both shot in 2015, followed by another documentary Killing Time (2018).

FILMOGRAFIA

Farebbero tutti silenzio (doc., cm, 2001), Deheishe Refugees Camp (cm, doc., 2002), 052 (cm, 2002), Identità (mm, doc., 2003), MisuraXmisura (mm, doc., 2004), Nightshot (mm, videoclip, 2005), Mercancìa (cm, doc., 2006), Di madre in figlia (doc., 2008), Striplife (coregia/codirectors Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, doc., 2013), Rino - La mia ascia di guerra (doc., 2015), Irrawaddy mon amour (doc., 2015), Killing Time (doc., 2018), A guardia di un fede (doc., 2023).

Declaration

film director

“Rino was the grandfather I never had. We started this film together, without realizing it, twenty years ago. Rino gave me his video8 camera and I started filming him with it, believing it was important to tell his story. […] When Rino lost his memory two years ago, I decided to finish the film, gathering everything we’d made together and looking through his things for the VHS and the Super8 videos he’d shot. What emerges isn’t the picture of the partisan hero, but of a placid man who enjoyed nature, horses, and cinema. He was the first person who sensed I would tell stories some day.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Andrea Zambelli
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Andrea Zambelli, Chiara Cremaschi
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Zambelli, Andrea Zanoli
montaggio/film editing
Ilaria Fraioli
musica/music
Giulio Ciccia
suono/sound
Vito Martinelli
interpreti/cast
Rino Bonalumi, Lina Ziliani
produzione/production
Metavisioni, Rossofuoco, Lab80film


contatti/contacts
Rossofuoco
info@rossofuocofilm.it
www.rossofuocofilm.it
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