SUOLE DI VENTO - STORIE DI GOFFREDO FOFI

Goffredo Fofi does not want to be considered an intellectual but he has spent his life founding magazines, writing books, reviewing movies. The film portrays his tireless political and cultural work and his encounters with famous figures such as Elsa Morante, Carmelo Bene, Danilo Dolci, Aldo Capitini, Totò, Luis Bunuel, Ada Gobetti, Raniero Panzieri, Pasolini, Fellini… People with whom “it was nice to fight” but, in certain cases, it was just as nice to make up with them. And then, 1968, the extra-parliamentary groups, ideological excesses, discovering new authors and directors. Social work as a political resource. The profile of a heretical intellectual and an extraordinary cultural organizer reveals a very critical view of Italian society, its power mechanisms, and the injustice that leaves a mark on it.

“The personal, cultural, and political story of Goffredo Fofi has always fed off contradictions, heated confrontations, and important second thoughts, all underpinned by a vocation for teaching that he never abandoned. And thus, a film that portrays him can be anything but celebratory, his character does not permit it. In keeping with this premise, the movie doesn't avoid clashes or cultural contradictions; in fact, they give it some of the vitality that is so well represented by the continuous changes of settings that Fofi's life proposes.”

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Felice Pesoli. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Saverio Guarna. FILM EDITING: Aline Hervé. MUSIC: Cristian Labelli, Massimo Mariani, Tiziano Tononi. SOUND: Andrea Moser. CAST: Goffredo Fofi. PRODUCER: Gianfilippo Pedote. PRODUCTION: Avventurosa, Rai Cinema, in associazione con Istituto Luce Cinecittà, con la collaborazione dell’Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico, Cineteca di Bologna, Casa delle visioni. DISTRIBUTIO: Istituto Luce Cinecittà.