Marina Zangirolami

Movies

La sedia della felicità
First Assistant Director
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
Medici con l'Africa
Producer
Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.
Sei Venezia
Producer
What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.
La Passione
Aiuto regista
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Ritratti: Luigi Meneghello
First Assistant Director
Over the course of three days, Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello (1922-2007) about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect.
Holy Tongue
First Assistant Director
Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of St. Anthony of Padua.
Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto
First Assistant Director
Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) about three themes: Nature, History, and Language.
Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern
First Assistant Director
Over the course of three days, Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern (1921-2008) about – among other things – his renowned experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminating in the infamous retreat of the Italian troops, the difficult reintegration into civilian life after the war, his relationship with his literary work and the one with his ancestral land, the Asiago Plateau.
With Closed Eyes
First Assistant Director
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
Il toro
First Assistant Director
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former company and smuggles it in Hungary to sell it for a large sum of money.
The Great Pumpkin
First Assistant Director
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Il prete bello
First Assistant Director
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Notte italiana
Script Supervisor
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.