Country: Italy
Year: 1989
Duration: 89'
Michele Apicella, an official for the Communist Party, loses his memory after a car accident. While playing an away game in Sicily with his water-polo team, he starts to remember glimpses of his past: his political activism, his career as a politician, some childhood memories, like when he first learned how to swim in the pool. But what makes it all the more confusing is that people keep telling him about this epic thing he did on a TV show recently, which Michele just cannot seem to recall. More memories float to the surface during the water-polo match, with dramatic and even grotesque consequences. [cg]
Biography
film director
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti (Brunico, Bolzano, Italy, 1953) is considered one of the greatest contemporary European filmmakers. After making a few short films, he directed the feature Io sono un autarchico (1976), putting him on the map for critics and viewers alike. He followed it with another hit, Ecce bombo (1978). Among his next movies: Sogni d’oro (1981), which received the Special Jury Prize in Venice; Bianca (1984); La messa è finita (1984), winner of the Silver Bear and the CICAE Award in Berlin; Palombella rossa (1989), which won the Bastone Bianco Award in Venice; Aprile (1998); La stanza del figlio (2001), which received the FIPRESCI Prize and the Palme d’Or in Cannes; Il caimano (2006); Habemus Papam (2011); and Mia madre (2015), which received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes. He created the production company Sacher Film, and ran the Torino Film Festival from 2007 to 2008.
FILMOGRAFIA
Paté de bourgeois (cm, 1973), Io sono un autarchico (1976), Ecce bombo (1978), Sogni d’oro (1981), Bianca (1984), La messa è finita (1984), Palombella rossa (1989), La cosa (doc., 1990), Caro diario (1993), Aprile (1998), La stanza del figlio (2001), Il caimano (2006), Habemus Papam (2011), Mia madre (2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Nanni Moretti
fotografia/cinematography
Giuseppe Lanci
montaggio/film editing
Mirco Garrone
scenografia/production design
Giancarlo Basili, Leonardo Scarpa
costumi/costume design
Maria Rita Barbera
musica/music
Nicola Piovani
suono/sound
Franco Borni
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Nanni Moretti (Michele Apicella), Silvio Orlando (l’allenatore/coach), Mariella Valentini (la giornalista/reporter), Alfonso Santagata (il primo personaggio fastidioso/first tiresome character), Claudio Morganti (il secondo personaggio fastidioso/second tiresome character), Asia Argento (Valentina), Eugenio Masciari (l’arbitro/referee), Mario Patanè (Simone), Antonio Petrocelli (il fascista/fascist), Remo Remotti (l’alter ego dell’allenatore/coach’s alter ego)
produttori/producers
Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti
produzione/production
Sacher Film
coproduzione/coproduction
Palmyre Productions
contatti/contacts
Cineteca Nazionale
Laura Argento
laura.argento@fondazionecsc.it
www.fondazionecsc.it
Nanni Moretti
fotografia/cinematography
Giuseppe Lanci
montaggio/film editing
Mirco Garrone
scenografia/production design
Giancarlo Basili, Leonardo Scarpa
costumi/costume design
Maria Rita Barbera
musica/music
Nicola Piovani
suono/sound
Franco Borni
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Nanni Moretti (Michele Apicella), Silvio Orlando (l’allenatore/coach), Mariella Valentini (la giornalista/reporter), Alfonso Santagata (il primo personaggio fastidioso/first tiresome character), Claudio Morganti (il secondo personaggio fastidioso/second tiresome character), Asia Argento (Valentina), Eugenio Masciari (l’arbitro/referee), Mario Patanè (Simone), Antonio Petrocelli (il fascista/fascist), Remo Remotti (l’alter ego dell’allenatore/coach’s alter ego)
produttori/producers
Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti
produzione/production
Sacher Film
coproduzione/coproduction
Palmyre Productions
contatti/contacts
Cineteca Nazionale
Laura Argento
laura.argento@fondazionecsc.it
www.fondazionecsc.it
