Country: Italy
Year: 1973
Duration: 101'
Fortunato Santospirito is a young man from Trevico who moves to Turin, in northern Italy, where he is promised a job at the FIAT factory. The film takes on a documentary slant as it follows the intertwining of human stories and political events that the protagonist has to confront on a daily basis: housing, racism, employment, the rising awareness of being exploited, an exciting yet bitter love story, and the need to keep going in the factory and to continue the battle to defend his dignity, amid contrasts and disappointments.
The National Museum of Cinema of Turin and the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna carried out the digital restoration of Trevico-Torino (Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam) in 2008, starting from the original 16mm negative that was stored at the Istituto Luce – Cinecittà in Rome.
Biography
film director
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (Trevico, Avellino, Italy, 1931 - Rome, Italy, 2016), after collaborating with Age and Scarpelli on the screenplays of major movies, debuted as a director in 1964 with Let’s Talk About Women, starring Vittorio Gassman (one of his favorite actors), Nino Manfredi, and Marcello Mastroianni. Between the late 1960s and throughout the ’70s, he made a name for himself as one of the maestros of Italian cinema, as he continued making comedies, but also struck melancholy and dramatic notes with his masterpieces. In 2013, ten years after his last film, he directed the tribute to Fellini Che strano chiamarsi Federico. In 2012 he received the 30th TFF Gran Premio Torino.
FILMOGRAFIA
Se permettete parliamo di donne (1964), La congiuntura (1964), L’arcidiavolo (1965), Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Dramma della gelosia. Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970), Permette? Rocco Papaleo (1971), La più bella serata della mia vita (1972), Trevico-Torino - Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam (1973), C’eravamo tanto amati (1974), Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976), Signore e signori, buonanotte (coregia/codirector Cooperativa 15 maggio, 1976), Una giornata particolare (1977), I nuovi mostri (coregia/codirectors Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, 1977), La terrazza (1979), Vorrei che volo (doc, 1982), Il mondo nuovo (1982), Ballando ballando (1983), Maccheroni (1985), La famiglia (1987), Splendor (1989), Che ora è? (1989), Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990), Mario, Maria e Mario (1993), Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995), La cena (1998), Concorrenza sleale (2001), Gente di Roma (2003), Che strano chiamarsi Federico (2013).
Declaration
film director
“I had the idea for Trevico-Torino for a long time, and then one night I sat in front of a tape recorder and haphazardly fleshed out the concept. […] Trevico-Torino was created in Turin day by day: the only certainty was the desire to observe the condition of factory workers who came from southern Italy.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Ettore Scola
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Ettore Scola, Diego Novelli
fotografia/cinematography
Claudio Cirillo
montaggio/film editing
Raimondo Crociani
scenografia/production design
Luciano Ricceri
musica/music
Benedetto Ghiglia
suono/sound
Vittorio Massi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Paolo Turco (Fortunato Santospirito), Victoria Franzinetti (Vicky)
produzione/production
Unitelefilm
**
contatti/contacts
Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Cineteca
Claudia Gianetto
gianetto@museocinema.it
www.museocinema.it
Ettore Scola
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Ettore Scola, Diego Novelli
fotografia/cinematography
Claudio Cirillo
montaggio/film editing
Raimondo Crociani
scenografia/production design
Luciano Ricceri
musica/music
Benedetto Ghiglia
suono/sound
Vittorio Massi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Paolo Turco (Fortunato Santospirito), Victoria Franzinetti (Vicky)
produzione/production
Unitelefilm
**
contatti/contacts
Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Cineteca
Claudia Gianetto
gianetto@museocinema.it
www.museocinema.it
