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Excellent Cadavers / In
un altro paese (18)
Orchestra Of Piazza Vittorio
/ L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (12)
Primo Levi's Journey / La
Strada di Levi (15)
Simply Beautiful / Bellissime
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Excellent Cadavers
/ In un altro Paese (tbc)
2005 92 mins
Dir Marco Turco
A powerful, mind-boggling documentary, based
on the eponymous book by Alexander Stille
about the Sicilian Mafia andthe heroic prosecutors
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino -who
brought hundreds of criminals to trial beginning
in the 1980s(in 1982 there was a Mafia killing
in Palermo every three days),until they
themselves were murdered in 1992.Their work
galvanised public outrage as Mafia foot
soldierstestified in court that they threw
bodies into vats of acid to liquefythem.
The violence they described was embodied
by the no-holdsbarredphotographs of death
in the streets, made by LetiziaBattaglia,
who appears in the film.The Mafia’s
pervasive hold on Italy is documented here,
as well asthe entrenched corruption of the
nation’s politicians, dating backto
the end of the Second World War, when Mafia
figures wereinstalled in positions of power
to counteract the growth of theItalian Communist
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London Riverside 19 Nov 7.00pm
Dundee 25 Nov 6.15pm
Edinburgh 28 Nov 8.30pm
Glasgow 29 Nov 8.45pm |
Cast
Alexander Stille, Letizia Battaglia, Guiseppe
Ayala, Giuseppe DiLello,
Leonardo Guarnotta
Prod Vania del Borgo
Ph Franco Lecca
Scr Marco Turco from the book by Alexander
Stille
Mus Andrea Pandolfo
Ed Luca M. Gazzolo
Ph Enzo Carpineta
Int sales Fandango Distribuzione Via Ajaccio,
10 - IT-00198 Roma
Tel +39 06 97745001 Fax +39 06 97745020
www.fandango.it
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The Orchestra
of Piazza Vittorio / L’Orchestra di
Piazza Vittorio (12)
Dir Agostino Ferrente
Championed by Nanni Moretti, The Orchestra
of Piazza Vittorio hasbecome one of the
most successful and beloved documentaries
everreleased in Italy.The joyous story of
a neighbourhood orchestrabringing together
30 foreign musicians living in Rome is as
infectiousas the Buena Vista Social Club
and guaranteed to lift the spirits.Piazza
Vittorio is a stone's throw from Rome's
Termini station andhome to more than sixty
different ethnic groups. It is also home
todocumentary filmmaker Agostino Ferrente
who joined with musicianMario Tronco in
forming a neighbourhood committee called
Apollo 11.Their aim was to re-open the area's
Apollo theatre and form anorchestra with
musicians from around the globe.The film
captures their five-year struggle to make
the dream a realityand tells the individual
stories of musicians from Tunisia, India,
Africa,Cuba and beyond as they gradually
unite into a unique orchestra thathas now
performed more than two hundred concerts
across Europe.An uplifting, unforgettable
true life story.
Director
Agostino Ferrente will be present
at the following screenings:
London Riverside
17 Nov 7.00pm | Glasgow
26 Nov 6.15pm
Edinburgh 27 Nov
6.00pm |
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London Riverside 17 Nov 7.00pm
Glasgow 26 Nov 6.15pm
Edinburgh 27 Nov 6.00pm |
Prod Lucky Red, Pirata MC, Bianca Film
Scr Agostino Ferrente, Massimo Gaudioso,
Mariangela Barbanente, Francesco Piccolo
Ph Great De Lazzaris, Alberto Fasulo, Simone
Pierini, Giovanni Piperno, Sabrina Varani
Ed Desideria Rayner, Jacopo Quadri, Roberta
Crusciani, Mascha Calamandrei
Mus The Orchestra Of Piazza Vittorio, Avion
Travel
Intl sales Wide Management,
42Bis, rue de Lourmel, 75015, Paris. Tel
00 331 53 95 04 64
Tel 00 331 53 95 04 65
Wide@widemanagement.com
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Primo Levi’s
Journey / La strada di Levi (15)
2006, 91 mins
Dir Davide Ferrario
Primo Levi's If This Is A Man offers an
unforgettable sense of theburden of guilt
carried by those who survived the horrors
of theconcentration camps. When Levi was
liberated from Auschwitz bythe Red Army
in January 1945 his long, meandering journey
hometo Turin took more than a year.Davide
Ferrario's acclaimed documentary retraces
that journeythrough Poland, Ukraine, Belarus,
Moldavia, Romania, Hungaryand Germany. He
skillfully contrasts what Levi would have
seenwith the present day issues of prejudice
and nationalism that scarEurope and the
countries that emerged from the ashes of
the oldSoviet Union.Primo Levi's Journey
emerges as a provocative confrontationwith
contemporary European identity and a moving
testimonyto the power of Levi's life and
work.
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London Riverside 18 Nov 5.00pm
Manchester 20 Nov 6.30pm
Edinburgh 22 Nov 8.30pm
Glasgow 25 Nov 5.30pm
Dundee 26 Nov 6.15pm
Cardiff 29 Nov 6.30pm
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Prod RAI
Cinema, Rossofuoco
Scr Marco Belpoliti, Davide Ferrario
Ph Gherardo Gossi, Massimilinao Trevis
Ed Claudio Cormio
Mus Daniele Sepe
Int Sales Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via
Barnaba Oriana 24A, 00197 Rome.
Tel 0039 06808 6052 Fax 0039 068068 7855
info@adrianachiesaenterprises.com
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Simply Beautiful / Bellissime (12)
2005, 180mins
Dir Giovanna Gagliard
Bellissime is a collection of film, photographs,
songs and femalevoices which cover the role
of women in the major historicalevents of
the 20th century. A century which specifically
from the1970s to today often shows the woman
as the protagonist: fromthe “single
mothers” proud of their “irregular”
conjugal life, tothe adolescents in miniskirts,
to the feminists who went on themarch in
the 1960s. Making their voices felt are
the great womenin politics, like Tina Anselmi
who demanded “good institutionallaws”
in favour of equal rights between men and
women. Thereare also the voices of victims
like Gemma Capra whose family lifewas ripped
apart after the assassination of police
commissionerCalabresi, and other women in
power such as Barbara Contini,Governor of
Nassirya in Iraq after Saddam.It is also
about customs which begin to change. The
aspirationfor an entirely new female beauty,
where a woman is capable ofcombining her
emancipation with elegance – the TV
which shapesus, the movies which question
us, and the songs which speak ofour most
hidden desires. |
Glasgow 20 Nov 7.30 pm
London Riverside 25 Nov 4.00pm |
Prod Istituto
Luce and Luciano Sovena
Scr Giovanna Gagliardo
Ph Massimiliano Maggi
Ed Patrizia Penzo, Annalisa Forgione
Mus Stelvio Cipriani.
Int sales: Rai Trade Via Umberto Novaro,
18 00195 Roma Tel 00 39 06 374981
Fax 00 39 06 3723492
www.raitrade.rai.it
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