Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 86
Sicily, the summer of 1990. Enrico is twelve years old; he has lived his life under the sign of the Italian Communist Party since his father is a local director and his mother a fervent follower. Enrico doesn't have any friends, except for Renato, who is also the son of communists, and he spends his days accompanying his father from one local chapter to the next. Tired of their summers, which are so different from those of their peers, Enrico and Renato make a decision: they'll go to a campground on their own. But not to any campground: the two re-found the Pionieri, the former communist scouts, which went defunct decades earlier. During their escape, they are joined by Victor, a rough classmate who has been flunked several times, and Margherita, the daughter of an American serviceman at the nearby NATO base. Together, they create an improbable and quarrelsome quartet that is united by a need to run away from everything.
Biography
film director
Luca Scivoletto
(Modica, Sicily, 1981) moved to Rome as an adolescent and began to shoot short films, participating at festivals such as Arcipelago and Bellaria. He received a PhD in film studies at the Sapienza University of Rome and began working as a director and screenwriter. In 2004, he directed Ho deciso, which won the La7 TV program La 25a ora, and, in 2006, the short Ieri, with which he participated at the Berlinale Talents and the Rotterdam Film Festival and received a Silver Ribbon nomination. He then shot the documentaries A Nord Est (2010), Max (2010), and Con quella faccia da straniera. Il viaggio di Maria Occhipinti (2013), with which he participated at numerous international festivals, and the mockumentary L’uomo pietra (2015), which won best short film at the Riff - Rome Independent Film Festival. In 2018, he wrote 1938 – Diversi directed by Giorgio Treves, presented in Venice and Silver Ribbon for best documentary. The feature film I pionieri (2022) is based on the same-titled novel published with Fandango in 2019.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Way (cm, 1994), Ciao, Meno! (doc, 1994), Vita basata sul nulla (cm, 1995), Giorni infiniti (cm, 1996), Un gioiello in carcere (doc, 1997), Secum (cm, 1997), Cineclub e il ragazzo che registrava immagini (cm, 1998), Full Empty Square (doc, 1999), La luna nelle mani (cm, 2000), Il sogno di Edipo (cm, 2001), Frammenti d’acqua (cm, 2002), Ho deciso (cm, 2004), Ieri (cm, 2016), A Nord Est (mm, doc, 2010), Max (doc, 2010), Con quella faccia da straniera. Il viaggio di Maria Occhipinti (doc, 2013), L’uomo pietra (cm, 2015), I pionieri (2022).
Declaration
film director
“My starting point was the realization that, in the Italy of my childhood, which was still divided between the American military bases and the biggest Communist Party in the west, politics had a much stronger impart on family ties compared to today, almost like soccer, sometimes exaggerated and therefore potentially comical. And I started from a personal difficulty: I was the son of communist parents but I was born and brought up at the wrong moment in time, the dazzling 1980s, when communism was undergoing a crisis and, year after year, all the ideals I had absorbed as a child were become less and less applicable. The result was a precocious and unresolved political bewilderment. But the autobiographical side stops there. Because, right from the start, my goal was to recount a universal story: the symbiotic friendship between two boys and the way it enters into crisis when one of them bursts the bubble of certainties that had protected them ever since their childhood.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Luca Scivoletto. STORY, SCREENPLAY: Eleonora Cimpanelli, Pierpaolo Pirone, Luca Scivoletto. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stefano Falivene. FILM EDITING: Alice Roffinengo. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Flaviano Barbarisi. COSTUME DESIGN: Alfonisina Lettieri. MUSIC: Alessandro “Asso” Stefana, Luca Scivoletto. SOUND: Maricetta Lombardo. CAST: Mattia Bonaventura, Francesco Cilia, Danilo Di Vita, Matilde Sofia Fazio, Peppino Mazzotta, Lorenza Indovina, Eleonora Danco, Elvira Maria Camarrone, Maurizio Bologna, Beth Mc Creton, Roberto Nobile, Francesco Cristiano Russo, Tim Daish, Claudio Bigagli. PRODUCERS: Domenico Procacci, Laura Paolucci. PRODUCTION: Fandango, Rai Cinema.
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