Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Duration: 80'
A journey through post-WWII Italy, when the young people who had been powerless witnesses of the horrors of the conflict began to plan a new future for themselves, full of hope but also with many contradictions which inevitably came to the fore. Dances, songs, centuries-old traditions, and sudden changes: archival images counterpointed by analyses which the most clear-eyed intellectuals of the time were already proposing in real time.
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).
Declaration
film director
“The 1950s in Italy are usually described as the cold war years, the contrast between Catholics and Communists. While working with the archives, we saw how the images were also telling another story. And by reading and listening to the theses which intellectuals from various political sides proposed in that period, we realized that the hopes and contradictions of those years could also be recounted in a different light, like a progression whose protagonists were the young generations, the same ones which would revolutionize the entire world during the following decade.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/directors, story, screenplay
Steve Della Casa, Chiara Ronchini
montaggio/film editing
Chiara Ronchini
musica/music
Gabriele Giambertone, Marco Corrao
suono/sound
Marco Furlani
produzione/production
Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Titanus
**
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
segreteriarp@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.com
Steve Della Casa, Chiara Ronchini
montaggio/film editing
Chiara Ronchini
musica/music
Gabriele Giambertone, Marco Corrao
suono/sound
Marco Furlani
produzione/production
Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Titanus
**
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
segreteriarp@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.com
