Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 83'
Goffredo Lombardo, the owner of Titanus, said that the movies made in the 1960s starring Gianni Morandi and Caterina Caselli had saved his production company. In fact, their movies cost little to make and scored big at the box office. For the first time, Italian song, which until that moment had been entirely directed at families, even in movies, began to address a decidedly younger audience. The same thing happened with the so-called “shouters”: Adriano Celentano, Mina, Tony Dallara. In the mid-1960s, young people’s consumption of culture was such a significant phenomenon that it anticipated the protests which would explode in 1968. This documentary uses the viva voce of the protagonists of the time and the vast archives of the Istituto Luce to recount the complexity of the phenomenon. During that era, simple, unpretentious films became the mirror of a generation and the litmus test of a country undergoing radical change. As Pasolini said, Italy was no longer the same after the economic boom. And those movies helped change it. [cg]
Biography
film director
Steve Della Casa
Steve Della Casa (Turin, Italy, 1953), movie critic, is one of the
founders of the Torino Film Festival, which he also directed from 1999
to 2002. He was president of the European Coordination of Film Festivals
and of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, as well as the artistic
director of the Roma Fiction Fest. He has been the author and conductor
of the radio program Hollywood Party on Rai Radio 3 since 1994. The
documentary Nessuno ci può giudicare, which he co--directed with Chiara
Ronchini, screened at the 2016 TFF, just like Bulli e pupe (2018).
FILMOGRAFIA
Colpi di luce (coregia Matteo Spinola, Francesca Calvelli, cm, doc., 2004), Uomini forti (mm, doc., 2006), Venezia ’68 (coregia Antonello Sarno, mm, doc., 2008), Flaiano - Il meglio è passato (coregia Giancarlo Rolandi, mm, doc., 2010), I tarantiniani (coregia Maurizio Tedeschi, mm, doc., 2013), Perché sono un genio! - Lorenza Mazzetti (coregia Francesco Frisari, doc., 2016), Nessuno ci può giudicare (coregia Chiara Ronchini, doc., 2016), Bulli e pupe (coregia Chiara Ronchini, doc., 2018), Zona Franca (doc, 2020).
Chiara Ronchini
(Marino, Rome, 1976) began as a film editor but over the years, following her passions and her intuition, she primarily turned her hand to directing. Her research on archival material is a consideration of the re-signification of audiovisual material, to reflect in turn on contemporary times in a political, cultural, and anthropological key. Her writing through images is always guided by a feminist gaze, careful to capture the complexity of the stories she composes and recounts. Her most recent works as a film editor and director include Nessuno ci può giudicare (2017) and Bulli e pupe - Una storia sentimentale degli anni ’50 (2018), both of which she made with Steve Della Casa. Nessuno ci può giudicare also won a Silver Ribbon.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nessuno ci può giudicare (co-regia Steve Della Casa, doc., 2016), Bulli e pupe (co-regia Steve Della Casa, doc., 2018), Giovanna, storie di una voce (doc, 2021).
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Steve Della Casa, Chiara Ronchini
interpreti/cast
Don Backy, Caterina Caselli, Tony Dallara, Ricky Gianco, Mal, Rita Pavone, Gianni Pettenati, Shel Shapiro, Piero Vivarelli
produzione, distribuzione/production, distribution
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
Marlon Pellegrini
m.pellegrini@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.it
Steve Della Casa, Chiara Ronchini
interpreti/cast
Don Backy, Caterina Caselli, Tony Dallara, Ricky Gianco, Mal, Rita Pavone, Gianni Pettenati, Shel Shapiro, Piero Vivarelli
produzione, distribuzione/production, distribution
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
Marlon Pellegrini
m.pellegrini@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.it
