Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 87'
“The life of exiles under fascist regimes was marked not only by ideological fervor but also by loneliness, anguish, and paranoia. Similarly, the dogma of real socialism, built on the lies that led to the brutal executions of Chekists, the horror of the Holodomor, and the Stalinist purges, allowed no room for any form of divergence, thus dragging the psychosis of dissenters and every militant into its darkest and most predatory stage. Central Europe became the focal point of this abomination in its most destructive and ferocious form.”
Biography
film director
Gianluca Minucci
(Trieste, 1987) graduated in Film History and Criticism and Film Studies from La Sapienza University in Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. He has directed commercials, short films, and music videos for artists such as Phantogram, Greta Van Fleet, and Com Truise. His music video Funeral Pyre for the band Phantogram was nominated for Best International Rock Video at the UK Music Video Awards and was included by the prestigious magazine “Stereogum” in its list of the 50 best music videos of the year, also receiving enthusiastic reviews from magazines such as “Pitchfork,” “Spin,” “Highsnobiety,” “Videostatic,” and many others. His medium-length film "Chimeras" received editorial coverage from the prestigious magazine American Cinematographer. As a public school teacher, he teaches Italian History and Literature.
FILMOGRAFIA
La doccia (cm, 2010), Il taglio (cm, 2013), Chimeras (cm, 2015), Phantogram: Funeral Pyre (videoclip, 2017), Greta Van Fleet: Safari Song (videoclip, 2018), Com Truise: Ultrafiche of You (videoclip, 2019), Europa centrale (2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Gianluca Minucci. SCREENPLAY: Gianluca Minucci, Patrick Karlsen. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Carlo Rinaldi. EDITING: Ian Degrassi. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Csenge Jovari. COSTUME DESIGN: Stefano Ciammitti. MUSIC: Zbigniew Preisner. SOUND: Emanuela Cotellessa. CAST: Paolo Pierobon, Tommaso Ragno, Catherine Bertoni de Laet, Matilde Vigna, Angelica Kazankova, Levente Molnár. PRODUCTION: Aldo Minucci, Monica Galantucci, Gianluca Minucci, Romano Reggiani, Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, Danubio Film, m74.
CONTACT: Danubio Film danubioproduction@gmail.com
