Country: Italy
Year: 1990
Duration: 38'


Real Falchera F.C., an improbable soccer team from the outskirts of Turin, serves as a litmus paper which measures eleven individual experiences as they come into contact with each other. There are eleven lives of people that often crisscross in the tough reality of a marginal neighborhood. The everyday lives of the individuals and the collective ritual of the game mingle to make up the pieces of a mosaic that reveals a universe of friendships and human relationships. The dressing room, the practice sessions, and the games are the starting off points. They are the keys that open up to different and other kinds of existential and cultural reality. These are ways of living and being that are much richer and more varied than one could imagine from hasty journalistic investigations.

Biography

film director

Giacomo Ferrante

Giacomo Ferrante (Turin, 1965) attended the Video School for Social Documentation in 1990-91. His videos include: Real Falchera F.C. (co-directed with Renato Ricatto and Enrico Verra, 1991), Uomo di pietra (1992), Frammenti di quartiere (1994), Milano 25 aprile 1994 (collective video, 1994), Il penultimo lustro rosso del secolo (1995), and Alzabarriera (1996).

Renato Ricatto

Renato Ricatto (1961), member of the cooperative, La Carabattola, worked in education for several years after his graduation. He attended the Video School of the cooperative, I Cammelli Factory, where he made the videos, Maria (1990) and Real Falchera F.C. (1991, with Giacomo Ferrante and Enrico Verra), winner of the Golden Seagull at the Festival of Bellaria (1991).

Enrico Verra

Enrico Verra (Turin, 1962) received a degree in Film History and Criticism at Turin University. He attended the school of video documentation directed by Daniele Segre and Gianni Volpi. He was the co-screenwriter of Luca Busso's short film, Da qualche parte in Italia; director of production in Daniele Segre's Manila Paloma Blanca; assistant director in Bruno Bigoni's Veleno; and unit manager in Guido Chiesa's Il caso Martello.

FILMOGRAFIA

You Gotta Move (16mm, 1989), Italo (video, 1990), Pannocchia (video, 1990), Real Falchera FC (video, 1991), Il signor Rossi prese il fucile (video, 1994), No Man's Land (1995)

Cast

& Credits

Director: Giacomo Ferrante, Renato Ricatto, Enrico Verra.
Production company: Cammelli Factory, via Cordero di Pamparato 6, Torino, tel. 747948.
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