40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION/RITRATTI E PAESAGGI
PARLAMI D'AMORE
by Adelmo Togliani, Daniele Di Biasio
The artistic figure of Achille Togliani recounted through interviews with well-known people from the worlds of culture and show business, interspersed with photographic and audiovisual archival material from the Istituto Luce, RAI Teche, and the singer's personal archive. Between 1945 and 1959, Togliani gave many radio and TV interviews, and, above all, he used a 16mm camera to shoot personal moments of his daily life, his concerts, his work on photo story sets, and TV broadcasts in which he participated.
Biography
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Daniele Di Biasio
(Formia, Italy, 1972) is a director and screenwriter for film and TV. He teaches high school Italian and history, holds courses in Italian as a second language, and teaches continuing education courses for teachers. In 2002, he wrote and directed <em>Pesci combattenti </em>(<em>Fighting Fish</em>), which won the Cipputi Prize, among others, and a mention as best documentary at the Torino Film Festival. In 2005, he directed <em>Via dell’Esquilino</em>,<em> </em>which received a special mention at Visioni Italiane in Bologna and at the Genova Film Festival. In 2008, he directed <em>Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa</em>, presented at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, and in 2010 <em>Figli del deserto</em>, presented at the London International Documentary Festival. In 2018, he began working with Adelmo Togliani on the documentary <em>Parlami d’amore</em>, about Achille Togliani.</p>
FILMOGRAFIA
Codici (cm, 1999), Il parco regionale suburbano di Gianola e Monte Scauri (doc., 2000), Pesci combattenti (doc., 2002), Via dell’Esquilino (doc., 2002), Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa (doc., 2005), Figli del deserto (doc., 2008), Parlami d’amore (coregia Adelmo Togliani, doc, 2022).

Adelmo Togliani
(Rome, 1972) Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He has performed in many successful fiction productions, such as Un medico in famiglia (2010, seventh season), Marcinelle (2003), Il signore della truffa (2010), the Raiuno series Un matrimonio directed by Pupi Avati (2013), and movies for the silver screen such as Naja (1998), Boris - Il film (2011), and Casanova directed by Lasse Hallstrom (2005). He trained as a theatrical director and later in audiovisual productions at the IED. In 2014, he made L’uomo volante, which won numerous national and international prizes, including the audience award at the Beijing Film Academy. In 2016, he and Simone Siragusano directed the short La macchina umana, presented at the Rome Film Fest, and the following year he directed the short Ciao, Nina, which participated at the Venice Film Festival. In 2018, he and Daniele Di Biasio began working on the documentary Parlami d’amore, about Achille Togliani.
FILMOGRAFIA
Io me la sogno (cm, 1998), Seventies - 70s (mm, 2000), Miseri… (cm, 2001), Dal verso giusto (doc., 2002), Nuti alla meta (doc., 2003), Fuori tempo (cm, 2006), Roller inferno (cm, 2007), V Canto (cm, 2007), Bravi ragazzi (mm, 2008), L’uomo volante (cm, 2014), Misericordia (mm, 2016), La macchina umana (coregia Simone Siragusano, cm, 2017), Dagli occhi dell’amore (2019), Nèo Kósmo (cm, 2020), Parlami d’amore (coregia Daniele Di Basio, doc, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“The original nature of the story consists in offering the viewer a unique cross section of a historical moment, not through an a posteriori analysis but through the voice and the images gathered by a 'star' of the time. Togliani conserved and organized the material that, thanks to more than five years of research, can finally live again on the screen today.”



