Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Duration: 20'
A slow journey through an archaic and rural world that seems to have disappeared but remains in the memory and the gestures of an old farmer and his inseparable companion: the last donkey in a small village.
Biography
film director
Angelo Urbano
(Italy), director, director’s aide and assistant, after graduating from DAMS began to work in film, collaborating with directors such as Michelangelo Frammartino, Alessandro Genovesi, Massimo Venier, Rocco Papaleo, Mimmo Calopresti, Simone Spada, Massimiliano Bruno, Max Croci, Edoardo Leo, and Gabriele Mainetti. He has also worked on TV series and fiction programs with directors including Giacomo Campiotti, Lodovico Gasparini, and Alessandro D’Alatri. He has directed documentaries and shorts influenced by neorealism, such as La via del ritorno, Vera Crucis, and Portati dal vento.
FILMOGRAFIA
La via del ritorno (doc), Vera Crucis (doc, 2019), Portati dal vento (doc), L’ultimo asino (doc, cm, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“L’ultimo asino was catalyzed by the desire to recount a world before it disappears, to leave a trace of our history. Everything recalls a suspended time, far away from the present; an archaic world we thought was extinct but that still lives - and perhaps for the last time - in the journey of a farmer and his inseparable companion. With them, we travel through the beauty of a landscape that embraces and nurtures them, feeling all the fatigue of a man who doesn't give in to the weight of his years and continues to live as he always has, with his habits, his rhythms, his pace.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, STORY, SCREENPLAY: Angelo Urbano. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vittorio Sala. EDITING: Silvia Di Domenico. SOUND: Giuseppe Tripodi. PRODUCERS: Silvia Innocenzi, Giovanni Saulini. PRODUCTION: Magda Film.
CONTACT: Magda Film magdafilms@gmail.com
