FROM GARIBALDI TO BERLUSCONI 150 YEARS OF ITALIAN HISTORY
FROM GARIBALDI TO BERLUSCONI 150 YEARS OF ITALIAN HISTORY
The problem faced by Italy's leaders 150 years ago and summed up in the famous phrase "having made Italy, now we have to make Italians" has remained at the forefront of Italian history right up until the present day. Even now, as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, we continue to ask ourselves who we are and what holds us together. While for us, to say “us” has always been extremely difficult, what has always united us however is our culture. From Garibaldi to Berlusconi: a two-hour journey through one and a half centuries of political and cultural Italian history, exploring what has held us together and what has torn us apart, both in the past and in the present.
An ARTE France / Les Films d’Ici / Zenit Arti Audiovisive co-production, with the participation of RSI Televisione Svizzera Italiana, with the support of Programma Media dell’Unione Europea, PROCIREP ANGOA - Société des Producteurs, Piemonte Doc Film Fund – Fondo regionale per il documentario, Città di Torino nell’ambito di Esperienza Italia, with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie.
2011, HD, 118’ o 2x59’ col.
Written and Directed by: Enrico Cerasuolo
Produced by:: Massimo Arvat (Zenit), Serge Lalou (Les Films d’Ici)
Historical advice: Giovanni Carpinelli, Duncan McDonnell
Director of Photography: Ned Burgess, Nina Bernfeld, Paolo Rapalino
Sound: Fabio Coggiola, Laurent Rodriguez, Gianluca Donati
Archive research: Ilaria Sbarigia
Original Music: Gregorio Caporale
Editor: Ruben Korenfeld
Production manager: Sylvie Brenet
With: Walter Barberis, Sandro Cappelletto, Giovanni Carpinelli, Vincenzo Consolo, Giovanni De Luna, John Foot, Marc Lazar, Salvatore Lupo, Duncan McDonnell, Silvana Patriarca, Luisa Passerini, Lucy Riall, Chiara Saraceno, Sebastiano Vassalli.
Festivals
Festival International du Film d’Histoire, Pessac, 2011FIPA Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels de Biarritz, 2012
Contest, Roma, 2012
BIF&ST – Bari International Film&Tv Festival, 2012
Historier från Italien / Storie dall'Italia, Stockolm, 2012
Valsusa Filmfest, 2012
CIAC Contemporary Italian Author Cinema, New York, 2012
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