Country: Italy
Year: 2026
Duration: 62'
For over forty years, Gianni Rondolino taught generations of students and wrote landmark books on twentieth-century cinema history. His most enduring legacy, however, was founding the International Festival of Young Cinema in 1982, together with Ansano Giannarelli, which would eventually become today's Torino Film Festival. Through memories, testimonies, archival footage and family films, the documentary retraces the professor's life and ideas, exploring his relationship with cinema and its power to transform the way we see the world.
Biography
film director
Mimmo Calopresti
(Polistena, Reggio Calabria; 1955) is a director and screenwriter. His films have been presented at numerous national and international festivals, including those in Salsomaggiore, Montbéliard, Munich, Stuttgart, Turin, Barcelona, Madrid, Florence, Ferrara, and Cannes. He wrote a screenplay that won the 1994 Solinas award, which he used in the making of his first feature film, La seconda volta. The film premiered in competition at Cannes in 1995, just like the following La parole amore esiste (1998). He later continued his career by creating several other feature films - Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), L'abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019) - and more than twenty documentaries, many of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A proposito di sbavature (video, 1985), Ripresi (cm, 1987), Fratelli minori (cm, 1987), Paolo ha un lavoro (doc., 1991), Paco e Francesca (doc., 1992), Remzjia (doc., 1992), 1943 La scelta (doc., 1994), 43-45 Pace e libertà (doc., 1994), Alla Fiat era così (doc., 1990), La seconda volta (1994), La parola amore esiste (1998), Tutto era la Fiat (doc., 1999), Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), Una bellissima bambina (cm, 2004), Dov’è Auschwitz (doc., 2005), Volevo solo vivere (2006), Torino è la mia città (doc., 2007), L’abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), L’Aquila 2009 - Cinque registi tra le macerie (ep, doc., cm, 2009), La maglietta rossa (doc., 2009), 1960 I ribelli (doc., cm, 2010), Uno al giorno (doc., cm, 2012), Madre di pietà (doc., cm, 2013), Socrates uno di noi (doc., 2014), Uno per tutti (2015), La fabbrica fantasma (doc., 2016), Immondezza - La bellezza salverà il mondo (doc., 2017), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019), Romanzo radicale (2022), Gianni Versace, l’imperatore dei sogni (doc., 2023), Cutro, Calabria, Italia (doc, 2024), Rondolino docet (doc, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“Professor Gianni Rondolino loved cinema above all else, and he did so as a free man, as a man of cinema. A curious man with boundless cultural interests, he succeeded in bringing cinema into university lecture halls, trained a generation of highly talented film students who went on to enjoy brilliant careers, and made animated cinema not merely a subject of study but a space for outstanding cinematic expression. He was a man who loved cinema, travel, and his family immensely.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Mimmo Calopresti. STORY, SCREENPLAY: Steve Della Casa, Mimmo Calopresti. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gabriele Ciances, Gabriele Marroni. CAMERA: Andrea Sestu, Simone Corti. EDITING: Francesco Tellico. CAST: Giaime Alonge, Silvio Alovisio, Alberto Barbera, Bruno Bozzetto, Giulia Carluccio, Alessandra Comazzi, Steve Della Casa, Simona Ercolani, Stefano Francia, Enzo Ghigo, Giampiero Leo, Chiara Magri, Ugo Nespolo, Paola Olivetti, Francesca Rondolino Di Stefano, Fabrizio Rondolino, Enrico Verra, Sara Zarlenga. PRODUCTION: Silvia Innocenzi, Giovanni Saulini for Alfa Multimedia. CONTACT: Alfa Multimedia alfa.multimedia2018@gmail.com
