Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 85'
Growing poverty, social and economic instability, wars, fanaticism: how can contemporary people be happy in a context like this? [mp]
Biography
film director
Maurizio Zaccaro
Maurizio Zaccaro (Milan, Italy, 1952), after graduating from the Milan Film School in 1977, made the short film Overkill, receiving an award at Oberhausen. He then went to the film school Ipotesi Cinema, which brought him to making In coda alla coda in 1988. He won a David di Donatello in 1991 for Where the Night Begins, and a second one in 1999 for Un uomo per bene. He directed many TV movies and miniseries from 2000 to 2011, and the documentary film The Piccolo Theatre (2009), participating at the Venice Film Festival, just like Un foglio bianco (2011). Between 2013 and 2016 he took part to the Torino Film Festival with the documentary Adelante petroleros - L’oro nero dell’Ecuador (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015) and Human Happiness (2016).
FILMOGRAFIA
In coda della coda (1988), Kalkstein - La valle di pietra (1992), L’articolo 2 (1993), Il carniere (1996), La missione (1997), Cristallo di rocca (1998), Un uomo perbene (1999), I ragazzi della via Pal (tv, 2002), Al di là delle frontiere (tv, 2003), Mafalda di Savoia (tv, 2005), ‘O professore (tv, 2006), Lo smemorato di Collegno (tv, 2008), I nove semi (l’India di Vandana Shiva) (2009), A testa alta (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015), La felicità umana (2016), Nour (2019).
Declaration
film director
“Today, the world is experiencing momentous change; there isn’t any room for those who let themselves be overcome by the state of things, for those who let themselves be subjugated by an increasingly savage economy, for those who don’t strive for redemption. It’s not enough to be indignant over how we are governed, or exploited and enslaved by an increasingly ferocious economy. We must find the courage to initiate change, providing – as Camus suggests – we first change ourselves, and fast if we don’t want ‘the past to devour the future.’ […] Unless politics and a new economy intervene, the upcoming future might resemble the past during the years of the belle époque, when the social scene was completely dominated by the rich and their millionaire patrimonies. And the dominion of today’s nouveau riches could end up suffocating tomorrow’s societies, their own wellbeing and, above all, human happiness.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, fotografia, produttore/director, story, cinematography, producer
Maurizio Zaccaro
montaggio/film editing
Massimo Salvucci
musica/music
Yo Yo Mundi, Andrea Alessi
interpreti/cast
Serge Latouche, André Comte-Sponville, Ariane Mnouchkine, Sergio Castellitto, Ermanno Olmi, Vandana Shiva, Bruno Bozzetto, Aleida Guevara
produzione/production
FreeSolo Produzioni
contatti/contacts
Free Solo Produzioni
Maurizio Zaccaro
freesoloproduzioni@gmail.com
Maurizio Zaccaro
montaggio/film editing
Massimo Salvucci
musica/music
Yo Yo Mundi, Andrea Alessi
interpreti/cast
Serge Latouche, André Comte-Sponville, Ariane Mnouchkine, Sergio Castellitto, Ermanno Olmi, Vandana Shiva, Bruno Bozzetto, Aleida Guevara
produzione/production
FreeSolo Produzioni
contatti/contacts
Free Solo Produzioni
Maurizio Zaccaro
freesoloproduzioni@gmail.com
