Country: Italy
Year: 1965
Duration: 86'
Life is hard for young Clementina: her farm is very tempting to Cattivissimo (Very Bad Guy), a landholder who, as his name suggests, is fairly unscrupulous. The arrival of mysterious Johnny, an extremely apathetic gunslinger, changes everything: finally, someone to defend her!
Biography
film director
Bruno Bozzetto
Bruno Bozzetto (Milan, Italy, 1938) debuted in 1958 with the animated short Tapum! The History of Weapons and in 1960 founded Bruno Bozzetto Film, with which he made commercials and movies. One of the world’s most famous animators and cartoonists, Bozzetto has directed many films, including the series of shorts dedicated to Signor Rossi; the animated feature films West and Soda (1965) and Allegro non troppo (1976); the real-life movie Under the Chinese Restaurant (1987); the TV series Sandwich (1984); and the shorts Mister Tao (1989), Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival; Grasshoppers (1990), nominated for an Oscar and a Nastro d’argento in 1990; and Looo (2005), which was made in 3D. In 2014 he received the Maria Adriana Prolo Award from the National Cinema Museum Association.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un Oscar per il signor Rossi (cm, 1960), Alfa Omega (cm, 1961), Il signor Rossi al mare (cm, 1964), West and soda (1965), Vip, mio fratello superuomo (1968), Ego (cm, 1969), Gli sport del signor Rossi (serie tv/tv series, 1975), Il signor Rossi cerca la felicità (1976), Allegro non troppo (1976), Le vacanze del signor Rossi (1976), I sogni del signor Rossi (1977), Tennis Club (cm, 1982), Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987), Baeus (cm, 1987), Cavallette (cm, 1990), Help? (cm, 1995), Adam (cm, 2002), Spaghetti Family (serie tv/tv series, 2003), Olympics (cm, 2003), Armi su strada (cm, 2008).
Declaration
film director
“On the beach during a family vacation in Taranto, Attilio Giovannini, the screenwriter, put the bug in my ear: why not try to shoot an animated feature film in Italy? I had never considered it because it’s an enormous project and it would mean going up against a giant like Disney. I was very stimulated by the idea but I would never have drawn inspiration from fairytales, like Disney does, because I’m not very interested in them. My reasoning led me to westerns, which I have always loved a lot and which I consider modern fairytales. After all, right from the start you know who the hero is, who will win, who will die and who the bad guy is. So I set off with the idea for West and Soda, and I’m still wondering how we were able to make it.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Bruno Bozzetto
soggetto/story
Bruno Bozzetto, Attilio Giovannini
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Bruno Bozzetto, Attilio Giovannini, Sergio Crivellaro
fotografia/cinematography
Luciano Marzetti, Roberto Scarpa
scenografia/production design
Giovanni Mulazzani
musica/music
Giampiero Boneschi
produzione/production
Cineriz
Bruno Bozzetto
soggetto/story
Bruno Bozzetto, Attilio Giovannini
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Bruno Bozzetto, Attilio Giovannini, Sergio Crivellaro
fotografia/cinematography
Luciano Marzetti, Roberto Scarpa
scenografia/production design
Giovanni Mulazzani
musica/music
Giampiero Boneschi
produzione/production
Cineriz
