LA MEMORIA DEL MONDO

Adrien, an art scholar and a biographer of the visual artist Ernst Bollinger, finds himself bogged down in the story he has written, a co-protagonist in the final chapter of the great artist's life. Immersed in the rarefied atmosphere of a winter lagoon, the two men, accompanied by a young boatman, share the experience of a secular pilgrimage in search of a woman who has disappeared. They find themselves exploring unexpected interior territory and realize they are children of a shared memory.

“In the movie, everything is in equilibrium, the settings are evocative of a lost time, places forgotten by man like symbols of an ancient civilization, clouded, faded. Each place is an idea of a place, every room is an idea of a room, stripped of the superfluous so that the characters can manifest themselves as idols. Bodies, boats, houses, islands suspended on the water and shrouded in fog; objects, people, and animals are conceived as fantastic visions that emerge from the haze like long-ago memories. Giulio, Adrien, and Ernst are body, word, and symbol; a pagan trinity consecrated to transfiguration, metamorphosis, all fathers of a single world and children of a shared ancestor.”

DIRECTOR: Mirko Locatelli. SCREENPLAY: Mirko Locatelli, Giuditta Tarantelli. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paolo Rapalino. FILM EDITING: Fabio Bobbio. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Luigina Tusini, Elisabetta Ferrandino. COSTUME DESIGN: Paolo Picardi. MUSIC: Marco Robini. SOUND: Mirko Guerra, Sonia Portoghese. CAST: Fabrizio Falco, Maurizio Soldà, Fabrizio Calfapietra. PRODUCTION: Strani Film, Rai Cinema.