Director
The movie tells the story of Alfredo Cohen, a man who left a trace by bending the forms of expression that he associated with, by shading the borders between sexes and sexualities, between italian and dialect, between high and popular theatre, between life and art. The existential path of a figure that’ s central for political and creative significance is what can fertilize our present and make it reverberate with voices that can make us rediscover the importance of imagination.
Director
In Italian cinema, the figure of the homosexual has always been presented as a stereotype and in a deliberately offensive way, as if the only way to treat a subject that was to all intents and purposes a taboo was through parody or mockery. But it was in the cinema of the 70s, in all its various film types, from sexy comedies to detective stories, that we find gay characters constantly present in films, almost obsessively. Unfortunately, they were the butt of coarse, trivialising humour, which reflected the backward social attitudes and homophobia of the time. To understand the causes of this phenomenon, Andrea Meroni, a young director from Milan, met the leading actors and directors of that time (e.g. Lino Banfi, Enrico Vanzina and Leo Gullotta), as well as experts, critics and activists of the LGBTQI movement. The result? A surprisingly ironic documentary that talks about the way we were when we were 'froci' (fags).
