(My country)
1:1,85 \ 35 mm. col. – documentary
Dir: Daniele Vicari ,
Prod. VIVOfilm with Rai Cinema and C.G.L., 2006
Between 1959 and 1960 one of the greatest documentary-makers in the history of cinema, Joris Ivens, made – commissioned by Enrico Mattei, president of Eni – a film with an emblematic title: Italy is Not a Poor Country. Through a long trip, starting from the North just reborn from the ruins of the second world conflict, to the South still rural, Ivens told the effort of the industrialization of a country on the eve of the economical boom.
What is left today of that dream?
Between 2005 and 2006 Daniel Vicari travelled again throughout Italy in the opposite direction in order to tell the current situation marked by the national economical crisis and the consequent loss of international competitivity.
A documentary film where the images of Ivens are a constant reference, a thematic and narrative suggestion, where the discovery of an industrial and post-industrial Italian landscape with great visual impact is grafted. The country is seen today as compared with forty five years ago, together with a picture of a unique historical moment and a page of great cinema.
PREMIERE
63° Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti specials events
AWARDS
David di Donatello best italian documentary film 2007