Il Regista Pannone
Giroldini Pessini E Tasso
Il Barbiere Di Luzzara

Mondo Za

Directed by Gianfranco Pannone | Documentary | 2017

Cesare Zavattini and the Bassa reggiana area. The Bassa reggiana and Cesare Zavattini. A rich and complex relationship, which in this film interweaves the past and present, creating a new suspended time through the words of four men of different ages and social conditions. The film starts with the great Za, father of Italian Neorealism (who does not remember Bicycle Thieves or Miracle in Milan?), who imaginarily meets his people in this area of Emilia lapped by the River Po. Wainer often goes fishing with his brother Rino at the river where today the waters are dominated by the sheatfish which devour everything. Being unemployed he wonders, with a few regrets, about his family with its partisan and antifascist traditions. The ideals and expectations in a better world have given way to disappointment. Leo, also known as Pavone, is the last of the naïve painters and seems to come from a story by Zavattini. He is always in the company of the little dog Tupin, he paints passionately and with anger, because as a painter he feels limited. He spends the days working on his ingenuous little paintings and horse herding, besides thing about the cute barmaid who works not far away from the old farmhouse where he lives alone. Giovanni, as a pensioner and former militant communist, he photographs every corner of the Bassa. From a very tender age he knew Ligabue, the errant painter of Swiss origin but also a symbol of this land. He looks at his political past with a critical but loving eye.

Video

Trailer

Status
concluded
Direction
Gianfranco Pannone
Production
Poligraphic s.a.s. di Beghi Giovanna
SUBJECT and SCRIPT
Nico Carrato / Primo Giroldini / Gianfranco Pannone
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Pierpaolo Pessini
EDITING
Nicola Tasso
MUSIC
Daniele Furlati / Brown Prince
Duration
80'
LOCATION
Luzzara, Borreto, Gualtieri, Campigine, Guastalla,
YEAR AND RELEVANT REGIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Bando produzioni regionali - 2015
DISTRIBUTION
Movimento Film
PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS AWARDS OR SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2018 Candidature: Nastri d'argento DOC: Cinema del reale