Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 99'
Marco Ponti’s debut film tells the story of a group of friends from post-industrial Turin who enter new millennium and adulthood. Cult film for an entire generation, a new way of depicting a city, with some young actors who will become very famous: Stefano Accorsi, Libero De Rienzo, Anita Caprioli. The title pays homage to the legendary foot- baller and of course to Manu Chao song too. Digital restoration in 4K by Augustus Color and Museo Nazionale del Cinema, in collaboration with Rai Cinema and Lucky Red.
Biography
film director
Marco Ponti
(Italian director, screenwriter and writer, he made his feature film debut in 2001 with Santa Maradona, one of the year's major Italian box-office successes, which won two David di Donatello Awards and a Ciak d’Oro. In 2004 he directed A/R Andata + Ritorno, followed in 2013 by Passione sinistra, which he co-wrote and directed. In 2015 he achieved further box-office success with Io che amo solo te, based on Luca Bianchini’s novel, followed the following year by La cena di Natale and, in 2018, Una vita spericolata. Alongside his film work, he has worked in theatre and television, also contributing to the writing and adaptation of stage plays. In 2022 he directed La bella stagione, a documentary produced by Groenlandia and Rai Cinema about the friendship between Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini, which won a Nastro d’Argento Award. He also worked as artistic producer on the docuseries Il Principe - The King Who Never Was (2023), directed by Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi. He is the author of several novels and books for young readers, including Ombre che camminano, La città delle streghe, Alice resta a casa and R - Ribelli, resistenza e rock’n’roll. In 2024, together with Pierdomenico Baccalario, he published Le cose importanti, a collection of stories by Gianluca Vialli.)
FILMOGRAFIA
Amsterdam (cm, 1999). Santa Maradona (2001), A/R Andata + Ritorno (2004), Ti amo troppo per dirtelo (tv, 2010), Passione sinistra (2012), Io che amo solo te (2015), La cena di Natale (2016), Una vita spericolata (2018), Eravamo schiavi (doc, 2019), Il mio anno stranissimo (cm, 2021), La bella stagione (doc, 2022), Sguardi (doc. 2026).
Declaration
film director
"Since the time of its release it didn't seem to me a film very far from the concept of "generational movie". It did not describe a specific generation. Otherwise I would have called it Reality Bites! Instead, such a cryptic title, Santa Maradona, served to emphasize the fact that I had no idea which generation I was talking about. I wanted to photograph a state of mind, and the transition to adulthood."
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, STORY, SCREENPLY: Marco Ponti. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marcello Montarsi. FILM EDITING: Walter Fasano. SET DESIGN: Andrea Rosso. COSTUME DESIGN: Marina Roberti. MUSIC: Motel Connection, Mano Negra. CAST: Stefano Accorsi, Anita Caprioli, Libero De Rienzo, Mandala Tayde, Domenico D’Alessandro, Fabio Troiano. PRODUCTION: Mikado Film, Harold, Rai Cinema. COPRODUCTION: Tele+.
CONTACT: Museo Nazionale del Cinema info@museocinema.it
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