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Handmade Cinema
Guido Torlonia
Italy, 2012, 52’
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
CC: Italian
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
CC: Italian
Countless professionals are needed to make a film possible. This documentary tells us all about the great artisans who make cinema magical.
Countless professionals are needed to make a film possible. This documentary tells us all about the great artisans who make cinema magical.
SYNOPSIS
Transforming an actor into a character, sewing a precious dress or a pair of vintage shoes as if they were a work of art, building a scenography, but above all painting it, “ageing it”, making a set designer’s sketch become a wonderful reconstruction: all this is Handmade Cinema. The documentary tells the story of the great family of Italian cinema that has preserved the heritage of its manual skills and of an art that the whole world envies at Cinecittà, all thanks to names that have never become “signatures”, and above all to the hands of truly special artisans who hand down their experience, like a family secret, from father to son.
CREDITS
Director Guido Torlonia
Cinematography Tommaso Borgstrom
Editing Pierpaolo Verga
Production Enormous Film, CSC Production Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
With Chiara Mastroianni, Adriano De Angelis, Dante Ferretti, Gianni Gianese, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Millenotti, Gabriella Pescucci, Massimo Pieroni, Manlio Rocchetti, Piero Tosi, Dino Trappetti