BRUSTULEIN

BRUSTULEIN
When cinema was just getting its start, the movie houses were full
of the sound of pumpkin seeds being eaten, that “brustulein” which
was an fundamental part of watching films. Today, the memories of
many of people who were young back then take us back to an era
when cinema was just getting a foothold in Italian cities. The story
of Bologna, from the postwar period to today, is also made of stories
of its cinemas.

“In Bolognese dialect, ‘brustulein’ are the pumpkin seeds which people
used to munch on at the movies many years ago. But they are also
the people we interviewed in every corner of the city of Bologna for
three years. They are the first spectators of the films which, for the
first time, appeared ‘on the white-washed walls of the houses.’
We decided to use this format to reconstruct the habits and the profiles
of these young people who crowded the movie theaters sixty years ago,
full of life and ready to start all over again.”

regia/director
Davide Rizzo
soggetto, sceneggiatura/
story, screenplay
Pierluigi De Donno,
Davide Rizzo
fotografia/cinematography
Vincenzo D’Arpe
interpreti/cast
Walter Angelini,
Agostino Arbizzani,
Fernando Gaspari,
Marino Grassi,
Stefano Grossi,
Sergio Graziosi,
Tristano Lauri,
Aldo Massa,
Edmondo Melotti,
Narciso Mengoli,
Mauro Mingardi,
Gianfranco Paganelli,
Aldina Tartarini
produzione/production
Freim,
Elenfant Film,
Maxman