Country: Italy
Year: 1989
Duration: 12'


Biography

film director

Andrea Gropplero di Troppenburg

(Udine, Italy, 1963) is a director, producer, activist, gourmet, and cook known as Chef Guevara. In 2015, for the Istituto Luce he made Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero, presented at the 65th Berlinale, and Il cinecittario, a collection of 180 2-minute film clips and recipes. Two years later, always for the Istituto Luce and Sì produzioni, he shot Il colore della fatica and, that same year, Comunismo futuro. He and the philosopher Stefano Bonaga created and curate Lido Philo, encounters between film and philosophy that take place during the Venice Film Festival. He writes a regular column called Cinegourmet for the journal “8 ½.”  Over the many preceding years, he has made numerous shorts and documentaries, and produced various movies, including Mary (2005) by Abel Ferrara, Paris Dabar (2003) by Paolo Angelini, Elegia della vita - Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006) by Alexander Sokurov, and many other films that have won awards at numerous international festivals.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fallo! (1989), Aprile (1990), Passami il burro! (1990), Permesso di soggiorno (1991), Sette anni sono troppo lunghi (1993), Pidgin (1997), Kumbh-Mela 95 (1997), Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero (doc, 2015), Il colore della fatica (doc, 2019), Comunismo futuro (doc, 2017), Ok boomer (coregia con Gianfranco Pannone, doc, 2022).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Andrea Gropplero.
Screenplay: Andrea Gropplero, Tommaso Borgstrom, Luca Busso.
Director of photography: Marco Pontecorvo.
Art director: Andrea Renzini.
Music: Tullio Ferro.
Sound: Michele Miriello, David Biseffi.
Editor: Ambra Giombolini.
Cast: Dario Parisini, Stefano Cavedoni, Lorenza Mazzetti.
Production company: Zero in condotta, via Nosadella 45, Bologna.
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