40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIAN DOCUMENTARIES/OUT OF COMPETITION
EROINA - LA GENERAZIONE PERDUTA
by Marco Turco
Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 75'
During the 1970s, Italy was swamped with heroin. Carlo Rivolta, one of the most attentive journalists of his generation, was one of the first to describe the phenomenon from the columns of a new newspaper, “La Repubblica.” He sensed the dynamics regulating the traffic and put the rising consumption in relation to the failure of collective movements that had been catalyzed by the events in 1968. It is the voice of a generation in free fall. But awareness didn't spare him.
Biography
film director
Marco Turco
(Rome, Italy, 1960) after graduating in history and philosophy, collaborated with the daily newspaper “l'Unità” and the journal “Movie.” He worked as an assistant director for Franco Giraldi, Damiano Damiani, and Gianni Amelio on the sets of Porte Aperte (1988), Il ladro di bambini (1990), and Lamerica (1994). His first short films, La sveglia and Coincidenze, were selected for the Venice Film Festival. In 1998, he made his first feature film, Vite in sospeso, which won Golden Goblets at Saint Vincent for Best New Director and Best Screenplay. He has made many documentaries, including Jazzitudine, ’A famiglia, Lo sguardo sull’uomo. Incontro con Gillo Pontecorvo, and In un altro paese, which won prizes at the Festival dei popoli in Florence and at the TaorminaFilmFest. In 2007, he shot the TV movie Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu and in 2009, La straniera, presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2020, he made Questo è un uomo, a docufiction for Raiuno about Primo Levi.
FILMOGRAFIA
La sveglia (cm, 1994), Coincidenze (cm, 1995), Vite sospese (mm, doc., 1996), Jazzitudine (mm, doc., 1997), Vite in sospeso (1998), ’A famiglia (mm, doc., 1999), Lo sguardo sull’uomo. Incontro con Gillo Pontecorvo (mm, doc., 2000), In un altro paese (doc., 2004), Il colpo di pistola (mm, 2005), Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (TV, 2007), C’era una volta la città dei matti (TV, 2009), La straniera (2009), Altri tempi (TV, 2013), L’Oriana (TV, 2015), Questo è un uomo (TV, doc., 2020), La generazione perduta (doc., 2022).
Declaration
film director
“This is the story of a generation, a choral symphony accompanied by the voice of a soloist. Through Rivolta's words and gaze, we experience firsthand the spirit of the times, the enormous hopes and bitter disappointments of a generation devastated by heroin. Rivolta's articles are accompanied by an vast amount of archival material. The young drug addicts are given voice in documentaries by directors such as Alberto Grifi and Antonello Branca, the first with a memorable reportage about the big gathering at the Lambro park; the second with a portrait of Filomena and Antonio, two drug addicts in Milan. The TV programs by Sergio Zavoli tried to shed light on that still-unknown phenomenon; the TV investigations by Joe Marrazzo, who started with the places where the drug was dealt and followed the chain backward to the highest levels of the trafficking managed by organized crime. And the news programs that reported the deaths and arrests like war dispatches. Radio gave voice to parents destroyed by what they were forced to live through to keep from abandoning their children to their destiny.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Marco Turco. SCREENPLAY: Marco Turco, Vania del Borgo, Wu Ming2. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andrea José di Pasquale. FILM EDITING: Annalisa Schillaci. MUSIC: Teho Teardo, Lorenzo Corti. SOUND: CAST: PRODUCER: Francesco Virga. PRODUCTION: Mir Cinematografica, Luce Cinecittà.
CONTACT:
Francesco Virga info@mircinema.com
