Country: Italy
Year: 1982
Duration: 69'
A documentary about Turin, ten years after Trevico-Torino - Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam, guided by Diego Novelli, who was the mayor of the city at the time. The Italian Communist Party commissioned Scola to make the movie, which is part of the series Un autore una città.
Biography
film director
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (Trevico, Avellino, Italy, 1931 - Rome, Italy, 2016), after collaborating with Age and Scarpelli on the screenplays of major movies, debuted as a director in 1964 with Let’s Talk About Women, starring Vittorio Gassman (one of his favorite actors), Nino Manfredi, and Marcello Mastroianni. Between the late 1960s and throughout the ’70s, he made a name for himself as one of the maestros of Italian cinema, as he continued making comedies, but also struck melancholy and dramatic notes with his masterpieces. In 2013, ten years after his last film, he directed the tribute to Fellini Che strano chiamarsi Federico. In 2012 he received the 30th TFF Gran Premio Torino.
FILMOGRAFIA
Se permettete parliamo di donne (1964), La congiuntura (1964), L’arcidiavolo (1965), Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Dramma della gelosia. Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970), Permette? Rocco Papaleo (1971), La più bella serata della mia vita (1972), Trevico-Torino - Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam (1973), C’eravamo tanto amati (1974), Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976), Signore e signori, buonanotte (coregia/codirector Cooperativa 15 maggio, 1976), Una giornata particolare (1977), I nuovi mostri (coregia/codirectors Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, 1977), La terrazza (1979), Vorrei che volo (doc, 1982), Il mondo nuovo (1982), Ballando ballando (1983), Maccheroni (1985), La famiglia (1987), Splendor (1989), Che ora è? (1989), Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990), Mario, Maria e Mario (1993), Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995), La cena (1998), Concorrenza sleale (2001), Gente di Roma (2003), Che strano chiamarsi Federico (2013).
Declaration
film director
“In this investigative movie, the year is 1980 and Scola focuses on the progress Turin has made in integrating immigrants from southern Italy, after the great migratory flow from the South of the preceding decades dwindled out. On the one hand, there are the workers, whose experience in the factories and involvement in workers' movement organizations has transformed them, to all effects, into new Turinese, involved and responsible. On the other, there are still large pockets of marginalization that generate petty crime or take form as drug addicts, young men who prostitute themselves, unwed mothers abandoned to their own devices, dropouts sleeping outside.” (National Film Archive of the Resistance, 2008)
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Ettore Scola. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Ragona. EDITING: Raimondo Crociani. PRODUCTION: Unitelefilm.
