9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1991

IL "FICO" DEL REGIME (DA PRENDERE COME ESEMPIO IN MANCANZA DI ESEMPI PEGGIORI)

by Ottavio Mai, Giovanni Minerba
Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 59'


"Giò Stajano's secret for going at life in the best way (or the worst way, depending on your point of view) has been and still is never to be taken too seriously. Just the fact that he was born gay in a little town in the deep South at the apex of Fascism, and even more that he came into the Starace family, that he chose as his mother the unknowing daughter of a 'virileissimo' right hand man of the Duce, in whose arms he peed at the tender age of one all this says a lot. Then, in the fifties, a youth of good prospects, he lands in Rome with his anticonformist lifestyle and with his book, Roma capovolta, about Capitoline homosexuality in high places (immediately confiscated). He becomes a character and is called by Fellini to play himself in La dolce vita. Then, all of a sudden, in 1981, after having worked as an 'assault-journalist', after having continued to write books and play movie roles, he got tired of this role, flew to Casablanca, and became Maria Gioacchina. In this way he came through on his inborn bent towards provocation and mockery in the face of life and of himherself." (Ottavio Mai and Giovanni Minerba)

Biography

film director

Ottavio Mai

Ottavio Mai (born in 1946) and Giovanni Minerba (1951) together formed the cultural association L'Altra Comunicazione in 1981. Since 1983 they have contributed several medium-length films and texts to Rai 3 Piedmont. Since 1986 they have directed the International Festival of Cinema on Homosexual Themes, "From Sodom to Hollywood". In 1988 they produced a series of videoletters for various Turinese filmmakers and Viaggio a Sodoma for Tonino De Bernardi.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dalla vita di Piero (video, 1981), Messaggio (video, 1982), Inficiati dal male (video, 1983), lo non sono come te (video, 1984), Attenzione ai camionisti (Su per8, 1985), Più vivo di cosi non sarò mai (Super8, 1985), La preda (Super8, 1985), Ritratto con musica (video, 1985), Teatrante musicante e saltimbanco (video, 1985), Storie di una certa età (video, 1986), Un po' di sud (video, 1986), Giovanni (video, 1987), Contrappunti (video, 1987), Preludio (video, 1987), La staticità di un corpo (video, 1988), Epitaffi (video, 1989), Tea for Two (video, 1989), Da Sodoma a Hollywood, il festival del vizio (video, 1989), Fiction (video, 1990), Partners (video, 1990), Il "fico" del regime (video, 1991).

Giovanni Minerba

Giovanni Minerba (Aradeo, Lecce) began his long artistic career with Ottavio Mai in 1977. In 1982, the two presented Dalla Vita di Piero at the Festival Cinema Giovani. In 1986 they created the Festival Internazionale di Film con Tematiche Omosessuali in Turin. By financing themselves, they have also produced works by other directors.

FILMOGRAFIA

Giovanni Minerba: Dalla vita di Piero (1982, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Teatrante, musicante e saltimbanco (cm, 1985), Un po' di sud (cm, 1986), , Contrappunti (cm, 1987), Da Sodoma a Hollywood (Il Festival del vizio) (cm, 1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Tea for Two (cm, 1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Epitaffi (1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Fiction (cm, 1990, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Partners (1990, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Il «fico» del regime (1991, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Orfeo, il giorno prima (cm, 1994), L'amore proibito dell'eroe (1996), Che cos'È mai questo amore? (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia e montaggio: Ottavio Mai, Giovanna Minerba.
Cast: Giò Stajano.
Production company: L'Altra Comunicazione, via Torquato Tasso 11, Torino, tel. 5213737.
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