Self (archive footage)
O documentário mergulha nos anos em que o cineasta Glauber Rocha (1939-1981) esteve exilado na Itália, entre 1970 e 1976. Por meio de memórias de amigos, parentes, colegas e colaboradores, o filme retrata a vida e a obra de Glauber na época, além de revisitar seu penúltimo longa-metragem, Claro (1975), gravado em Roma. A produção investiga a experiência do cineasta e de outros artistas na Itália da década de 70 e aborda diversos temas, como o Cinema Novo, o cinema underground, o neorrealismo e a militância política.
"Shoeshine 70" is a documentary directed by Mimmo Verdesca that celebrates an important anniversary. This years marks the 70th anniversary of the release of the film helmed by Vittorio De Sica "Shoeshine", a masterpiece of Neorealism, and the first Italian film ever to win an Oscar and the first recipient of a Nastro d'argento, a prizeigiven by Italian journalists. The film will revolve around the filming of that masterpiece in the 1946. Therefore it will be a report of those events but a film where memories will come to life thanks to the candid stories of the protagonists, that will take the spectator on an emotional and enticing journey.
Executive Producer
The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.
Producer
Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. When the boy finds himself participating in an arranged marriage with the female twin of one of his male lovers, he finally makes the choice that will determine the direction of his subsequent sex life.
Producer
In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.
Production Assistant
Um dos grandes filmes baseados em histórias em quadrinhos de todos os tempos do diretor Mario Bava.
Production Secretary
Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
