Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 95'
Genoa, 1990. Sampdoria, a young team, with the leaders Vialli and Mancini. For some years they have also been enthusiastically attending the international stages. That year thay embark on an epic adventure that will change the history of Italian football forever. La bella stagione is the story of this incredible ride to victory, through the voices of the players and members of the staff who have experienced this sporting season, and that of the journalists who have written and spoken about it. Then a series of unpublished and exclusive archive materials. A journey in which the legendary Sampdoria of 1990-1991 became not only the strongest, but also the most beautiful team in Italy. A story that lasted a lifetime, one in which that magical group of friends never lose sight of each other and support each other in the most difficult moments, until the end, until the magical night at Wembley, in the summer of 2021. That day Italy won the European Championships and Vialli and Mancini, the "goal twins", hugged in tears. The narrative frame is made up of the present and past of Vialli and Mancini in the national team: the disappointments of Italy '90 and the laurels of Euro 2021. Sporting successes and goals, but also feelings, friendship, complicity. Sampdoria was special because his players were special. That they had a kind of light in their eyes; the light of those who knew they were writing a page of history. Theirs and that of the U.C. Sampdoria. Regardless of defeats and victories.
Biography
film director
Marco Ponti
(Avigliana, Turin, 1967), a degree in humanities from the University of Turin, attended the screenwriting course at the Holden School between 1995 and1996, and the Rai course for screenwriters in 1997. He debuted as a screenwriter with Benvenuto a San Salvario by Enrico Verra (1999), which won a European Film Award, and as a director with the short Amsterdam (1999). In 2001, he found success with his first feature film, Santa Maradona, which was followed by A/R Andata + Ritorno (Round Trip, 2004), Passione sinistra (A Liberal Passion, 2012), Io che amo solo te (2015), La cena di Natale (2016), and Una vita spericolata (Reckless, 2018). He has worked for TV, directing the show Novecento by Alessandro Baricco (2004) and shooting Ti amo troppo per dirtelo (Don't Say You Love Me!, 2010). Since 1997, he has been collaborating with the Holden School in Turin and since 2018 with the Giffoni Film Festival. He has directed musical videos (Vasco Rossi, Jovanotti, Elisa, Emma), TV commercials, and documentaries (Eravamo schiavi, 2019). In 2019, he published his first novel: Ombre che camminano. In 2018, he and Michele Straniero founded the production company Sugarland Srl.
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).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Marco Ponti. SCREENPLAY: Pierdomenico Baccalario, Shadi Cioffi, Marco Ponti, Gianluca Vialli. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Timoty Aliprandi. FILM EDITING: Marco Guelfi. MUSIC: Motel Connection, Gigi Meroni. SOUND: Alessio Fornasiero. CAST: Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Gianluca Pagliuca, Giulio Nuciari, Luca Pellegrini, Toninho Cerezo, Fausto Pari, Moreno Mannini, Ivano Bonetti, Giovanni Invernizzi, Pietro Vierchowod, Attilio Lombardo, Marco Lanna, Beppe Dossena,Giuseppe Bergomi, Federico Chiesa, Franco Ordine, Paolo Condò. PRODUCER: Cecilia Passa. PRODUCTION: Grøenlandia.
CONTACT:
Rai Cinema.
