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CENTO ANNI

CENTO ANNI
by Davide Ferrario
Country: Italy
Year: 2017
Duration: 89'


Mario Brunello plays an ancient melody over images of cemeteries and memorial chapels from the Great War. Actors recount the other side of Caporetto. A story from Eco di uno sparo by Massimo Zamboni. The massacre at Piazza della Loggia. One hundred years after that military defeat, the present-day Caporetto is demographic. Different stories but the same question: what purpose do the dead serve?

Biography

film director

Davide Ferrario

(Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy, 1956) graduated in Anglo-American literature. In the beginning of the 1980s he works with different cinema magazines and organizes film festivals and events. He is the author of many essays on cinema, of novels and several screenplays. He has directed short films and documentaries, and, among the long feature films, we would like to mention La fine della notte, Tutti giù per terra, based on the novel by Giuseppe Culicchia, and Guardami, screened in Venice in 1999. His novel Fade to Black, with fiction figure of Orson Welles, has been translated in many languages and in 2006 became an Oliver Parker’s film production of the same title. He partecipated at the Torino Film Festival with several titles, among which Materiale resistente (1995), codirected with Guido Chiesa, Sexx (2016), and Cento anni (2017). In 2020 he presented at the Festival the documentary feature Nuovo cinema paralitico (2020), and the following year the feature Just Noise.

FILMOGRAFIA

Non date da mangiare agli animali (cm, 1987), La fine della notte (1989), Lontano da Roma (doc, 1991), Anime fiammeggianti (1994), A Rimini (cm, 1995), Il figlio di Zelig (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (co-regia Guido Chiesa, doc, 1995), Confidential Report (doc, 1996), Estate in città (cm, 1996), Partigiani (doc, 1997), Tutti giù per terra (1997), Figli di Annibale (1998), Sul quarantacinquesimo parallelo (doc, 1998), Guardami (1999), Comunisti (doc, 1999), Linea di confine (doc, 2000), La rabbia (doc, 2000), Le strade di Genova (doc, 2001), Fine amore: mai (doc, 2002), I Tigi a Gibellina (doc, 2002), Mondonuovo (doc, 2003), Dopo mezzanotte (2003), Se devo essere sincera (2004), La strada di Levi (doc, 2006), Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009), Piazza Garibaldi (doc, 2012), La luna su Torino (2014), La zuppa del demonio (doc, 2014), Accademia Carrara: il museo riscoperto (doc, 2015), Sexxx (doc., 2016), Cento anni (doc., 2017), Nuovo cinema paralitico (docufilm, 2020), Blood on the Crown (2021), Boys (2021), Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo (doc, 2022).

Declaration

film director

“One hundred years ago, Caporetto. It created the all-Italian paradigm of the catastrophe which leads to redemption. We’ve seen it so often since then, in every field. […] As a people, we need defeat: Mario Isnenghi entitled one of his books of historical studies ‘the necessary tragedy.’ So, here are four Caporettos in Italian history: the original one; fascism and the ensuing civil war; the massacre at Piazza della Loggia; and the contemporary Caporetto, which is demographic. Each one is narrated with a different style because the ‘documentary’ must also be a reflection on cinema and its methods of mise-en-scène. After Piazza Garibaldi and La zuppa del demonio, this is the final chapter of my trilogy on Italian history.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Davide Ferrario
soggetto/story
Giorgio Mastrorocco
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Davide Ferrario, Giorgio Mastrorocco
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Zambelli, Andrea Zanoli
montaggio/film editing
Cristina Sardo
musica/music
Fabio Barovero, Massimo Zamboni
suono/sound
Vito Martinelli, Francesco Morosini
interpreti/cast
Mario Brunello, Diana Hobel, Fulvio Falzarano, Laura Bussani, Marco Paolini, Gabriele Benedetti, Franco Arminio, Fabio Nigro
produttori/producers
Davide Ferrario, Francesca Bocca
produzione/production
Rossofuoco, RAI Cinema
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contatti/contacts
Lab80 Film
distribuzione@lab80.it

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