9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Screenings 1991
LE MOSCHE IN TESTA
by Maria Daria Menozzi, Gabriella Morandi
Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 90'
On the threshold of their thirties, Francesco and Bruno meet again after several long months have passed. Neither of them has any valid reason for keeping on living in Bologna. Elviro and Guerrino are two old friends, unsuccessful veterans of the wartime Resistance. Elviro is a fisherman who poaches, a loner and a drunk. Guerrino is a fishing warden in the Comacchio valley. The other characters revolve around them. Gianluca is out on probation from the reform school where he has spent his adolescence. He has been assigned to the custody of Bruno. And there are three woman figures dissolved among the unreal fights of the Po valley. Francesco plans to steal an expensive Etruscan vase with his uncle's help. He proposes this to Bruno as their grand opportunity to make a little money and go off to Africa. Guerrino instead tries to get Elviro in on the plot. In this way he almost wants to pay off a debt incurred when, as a partisan, he sent his friend out on a scouting mission who then lost his testicles while crossing a mine field, As far as action is concerned, nothing happens. The robbery fails. The vase ends up in the waves of the Po. Life is waiting, play and destiny.
Biography
film director
Gabriella Morandi
Born in Sasso Marconi, Bologna, in 1960, Gabriella Morandi is completing her degree in the History of Cinema at DAMS. She and Maria Dana Menozzi founded VBR Videoproduction of Modena in 1985. She has directed many music videos, theater videos, and documentaries.
FILMOGRAFIA
L'Abbazia di Nonantola (doc., 1983), La brutta storia che mi piace raccontare (co-regia, doc., 1986), Dinamismo ritmico (co-regia, video, 1986), La provincia di Modena (video, 1986), Ostiglia: fra passato, presente e futuro (doc., 1987), Dedicato a Marguerite (co-regia, cm, 1988), Nerosubianco (co-regia, doc., 1988), 7500 Km2 d'Afrique (co-regia, doc., 1989), Come tu mi vuoi (co-regia, doc., 1989), Le mosche in testa (1991).
Maria Daria Menozzi
Born in Modena in 1958 Maria Daria Menozzi attended a course for audiovisual directors and technicians organized by the city of Modena and the Emilia Romagna region. She has made many documentaries, theater videos as well as video interviews of Silvano Agosti and Wim Wenders (produced by FICE).
FILMOGRAFIA
Il gemello (co-regia, telefilm, 1984), 081 per chi chiama da fuori Napoli (video, 1984), Night Birds (video, 1984), Mondi e racconti (co-regia, doc., 1985), Dinamismo ritmico (co-regia, video, 1986), Incontro con Silvano Agosti (video, 1987), Incontro con Wim Wenders (video, 1987), Dedicato a Marguerite (co-regia, cm, 1988), Maurice Sendak (video, 1988), Biblioteca invito (doc., 1989), Alma Mater Librorum (doc., 1989), Storie di Casamance (co-regia, doc., 1989), Le mosche in testa (1991).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Gabriella Morandi, Maria Daria Menozzi.
Director of photography: Robert Shaefer.
Art director: Gianluca Albertazzi.
Editor: Jacopo Quadri.
Music: Michele Della Valentina.
Sound: Tullio Morganti.
Cast: Francesco Pini, Bruno Venturi, Elviro Enni, Andrea Manai, Beppe Faggioli, Mara Menegatti, Roberta Perrini.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: FCM Srl, Doppiaggio e Produzioni Cinetelevisive, v.le Bruno Buozzi 53, Roma, tel. 06874976, fax 06 8085633.
Director of photography: Robert Shaefer.
Art director: Gianluca Albertazzi.
Editor: Jacopo Quadri.
Music: Michele Della Valentina.
Sound: Tullio Morganti.
Cast: Francesco Pini, Bruno Venturi, Elviro Enni, Andrea Manai, Beppe Faggioli, Mara Menegatti, Roberta Perrini.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: FCM Srl, Doppiaggio e Produzioni Cinetelevisive, v.le Bruno Buozzi 53, Roma, tel. 06874976, fax 06 8085633.
