Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 72
Born in 1888, photographer and journalist Adolfo Porry-Pastorel was the father of Italian photojournalism, a pioneer of a new language, a brilliant creator of advertising ideas, and the founder of the agency V.E.D.O. - Visioni Editoriali Diffuse Ovunque. By the 1910s, he was already the leading photographer of news and live events. Between the two wars, he became “the photographer of Mussolini” while simultaneously being an observer of the regime, granted access to the Duce’s private rooms and monitored by fascist censorship. Thanks to his shots, millions of Italians experienced the news of those years, its historical and political events, its habits, and its changes. Original shootings, found footage, and pictures from the Istituto Luce archive portray a character capable of revealing the behind-the-scenes of power, the Belle Époque, the Fascist period, and the tragedy of the war.
Biography
film director
Tony Saccucci
after teaching history and philosophy, began conducting research at the Sapienza University of Rome on real life movies made in Italy during the early 1920s. In 2017, with Istituto Luce, he made Il pugile del Duce, special mention at the Silver Ribbons for best first film, and in 2019 La prima donna, once again made with Istituto Luce and with Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, Nastro d'argento winner. In 2022, he wrote the script for Marcia su Roma, directed by Mark Cousins, the opening film of the Giornate degli Autori in Venice, and he directed the documentary Lotta continua, presented at the TFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il pugile del Duce (doc, 2017), La prima donna (doc, 2019), Lotta Continua (doc, 2022), Controluce (doc, 2024)..
Declaration
film director
“Controluce is the story of the photographer who captured the most famous moments of Benito Mussolini’s life. Moments that are, in fact, famous precisely because of his photographs… It is a political film – the story of a talent within its historical context, including his identity as a father.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Tony Saccucci. STORY: Scatto matto by Vania Colasanti. SCREENPLAY: Tony Saccucci, Vania Colasanti, Flaminia Padua. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Filippo Genovese. EDITING: Patrizia Penzo. MUSIC: Alessandro Gwis, Riccardo Manzi. CAST: Michele Eburnea, Gaja Masciale, Antonio Galletta. PRODUCTION: Luce Cinecittà.
CONTACT: Cinecittà Luce sales@cinecitta.it
