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 Then a series of unpublished and exclusive archive materials.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
(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).
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.
