The Best of Youth (La Meglio Gioventù)
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Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana presents a film by MARCO TULLIO GIORDANA The Best of Youth (La Meglio Gioventù) written by SANDRO PETRAGLIA and STEFANO RULLI produced by ANGELO BARBAGALLO a Rai Fiction production realized by BìBì Film Tv international distribution Rai Trade Technical Cast Cast The plot Director Marco Tullio Giordana Nicola Carati Luigi Lo Cascio La Meglio Gioventù tells the story of an Italian family from the end Screenplay Sandro Petraglia Matteo Carati Alessio Boni Stefano Rulli Adriana Carati Adriana Asti of the 60s till nowadays. The lives of two brothers, Nicola and Matteo, Director of Photography Roberto Forza Giulia Monfalco Sonia Bergamasco are the heart of the story. At first they share the same dreams, the Camera Operator Vincenzo Carpineta Carlo Tommasi Fabrizio Gifuni same hopes, the same books and friendships. Meeting Giorgia, a girl 1st Assistant Director and Casting Barbara Melega Mirella Utano Maya Sansa Production Designer Franco Ceraolo Francesca Carati Valentina Carnelutti with mental disorders, will be determinant for the future of the two Costume Designer Elisabetta Montaldo Giorgia Jasmine Trinca brothers: Nicola decides to become a psychiatrist, Matteo abandons Sound Designer Fulgenzio Ceccon Angelo Carati Andrea Tidona his studies and joins the police. Boom Operator Decio Trani Giovanna Carati Lidia Vitale Angelo – the father – is a loving parent and husband. The family Film Editor Roberto Missiroli a.m.c. Sara Carati Camilla Filippi Sara Carati 8 years Greta Cavuoti experiences his exuberance with tolerant complaisance. Adriana – General Organizer Gianfranco Barbagallo Sara Carati 5 years Sara Pavoncello the mother – is a modern and irreproachable teacher, who loves her Executive Producer Alessandro Calosci Vitale Micavi Claudio Gioè pupils like her own children. RAI Production Managers Tonino Nieddu Luigino Paolo Bonanni Fabrizio Zappi Andrea Utano Riccardo Scamarcio Then we have Giovanna, the eldest daughter, who joined the Berto Giovanni Scifoni magistracy very young, and Francesca, the last member of the family. Produced by Angelo Barbagallo Medicine Professor Mario Schiano She will marry Carlo, Nicola’s best friend, who will take up an a production RAI Fiction Literature Professor Michele Melega International Distribution RAI Trade Therese Therese Vadem important role in the Bank of Italy and will – therefore – be in the Booth n.10 Pusher Stefano Abbati sights of terrorist groups during the “leaden years” (‘Anni di piombo’ Espace Riviera Palais des Festival Maghribi Giovanni Martorana known as the “leaden years” is the term given to the 1970s in Italy, as the +39 06 37498469 Don Vito Paolo De Vita +39 335 5994202 Saro Mimmo Mignemi decade was marked by violent protest and intense terrorist activity) . These hurt themselves, nurture new illusions and put themselves at stake www.raitrade.it Agent Enzo Domenico Centamore are the members of the family. again. Like it happens for everyone. [email protected] Police Commissioner Sicily Pippo Montalbano The last characters are Giulia, Nicola’s greatest love, who will give La Meglio Gioventù – both the title of a Friulian poetry collection by Sicilian Peasant Gaspare Cucinella birth to Sara, and Mirella, who will bump, in different moments and Press Office Studio PUNTOeVIRGOLA Butcher Dario Veca Pier Paolo Pasolini and an old song, sung by the Alpine troops – is Olivia Alighiero e Flavia Schiavi Nurse Nicola Vigilante different ways, into the lives of Matteo and Nicola. the portrait of a generation, that tried – despite its contradictions, its tel. +39.06.39388909 Second Lieutenant Marcello Prayer Through this little group of characters La Meglio Gioventù deals with ingenuous and violent furies, its authoritative voice, sometimes out [email protected] Agent Mario Walter Da Pozzo the most crucial events and sites of Italy’s history: Florence during Brigo Krum De Nicola of tune – not to accept the world as it is, but to make it a little bit 35mm. - colour - dolby digital - 1.78 - 366’ Terrorist Maurizio Di Carmine the flooding, Sicily and its struggle against the Mafia, the great better than they found it. President Court of Turin Roberto Accornero football matches that saw Italy’s national team playing against Korea Photographs by Angelo R. Turetta Prisoner “Tangentopoli” (Bribesville) Fabio Camilli and Germany, songs that mark an epoch, Turin during the 70s with Priest Palermo Antonello Puglisi Owner of Art Gallery Patrizia Punzo its blue-collar-workers, Milan during the 80s, the youth movements, Francesca Carati 8 years Nila Carnelutti terrorism, the crisis during the 90s, the efforts made to rebuild and Interviews by Lorenzo Codelli Andrea Utano 6 years Francesco La Macchia reinvent a modern nation. Our characters will reluctantly pursue their passions: they will stumble over history, they will grow up, 3 interviewintervista con Marco Tullio with Giordana Marco Tullio Giordana director … a few years ago Angelo Barbagallo proposed me to direct La meglio gioventù. I had already been working with Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli for the screenplay of Pasolini, an Italian Crime and I knew it would have been an interesting project. The first pages already captured me. I always thought of it as a single corpus, a single movie; dividing it up into episodes for the television was merely accidental. At the same time, such an articulation produces a length that cinema can’t afford: six hours time, an infinite lapse of time, almost novelistic: it allows you to follow the life of many characters and many parallel stories, it enables you to dilate what we have to cut out, to synthesise in a movie. Moreover –besides the challenge itself- it had been RAI, the Italian State Television, that had commis- sioned us to tell an important chapter of our history, of our country, of our time. It would have been wrong not to encourage such an effort. They asked us not to work on stereotypes, but, on the contrary, to develop an original point of view, completely different from all the standards of serial products. It was one of those rare cases in which we had been asked to do a “public service”. The conditions were particularly favourable: a significant productive dimension (guaranteed by the reliability of a producer like Angelo Barbagallo) and a complete freedom in putting together the cast and choosing the crew. Italian cinema often presented stories of families, like The Earth trembles or Rocco and His Brothers and The Damned by Luchino Visconti, Fists in the pocket by Marco Bellocchio, The Family by Ettore Scola. More recently also Gianni Amelio delt with the topic of the family in The Way we Laughed, and even The Hundred Steps, if we want, talks about a conflict within the family and about the relationship love/hatred that tears it members. In La meglio gioventù there’s one scene –when Matteo returns to his family on New Year’s Eve- that resembles a similar scene of Rocco and His Brothers, when Simone (Renato Salvatori) returns back home. I loved Visconti’s movies when I was a young man. I was bucking the trend: during the 70s my friends devoted to cinema thought that I was a little bit unorthodox! Rossellini was their idol and compared to him Visconti was just a bulky wreck. To be ghosts. Even though he will have to deal with disillusion, he won’t be held hostage, but will try to honest, I loved both and never understood why we had to take side for one of these parties. The good transform it in experience. With whom do I identify myself more? With both of them. I have been a thing about cinema is that you can see and love many different things, even antithetic ones: Cinema tormented, negative, almost self-murdering boy, like Matteo. But, at the same time, I’ve been volitive, has no rules – says Godard – that’s why people still love it! Therefore: Visconti as well as Rossellini. idealistic and happy like Nicola. Matteo is very gifted: he loves books and poetry, is curious about In La meglio gioventù you can discover both influences. Of course it is very different from their movies people, but doesn’t have the courage to exploit these capabilities, to choose them for his life. He even - it couldn’t be otherwise. But it’s like the painters of the Trans Avant-garde –Chia, Clemente, Cucchi: becomes a policeman, because then he won’t have to take decisions any more. The others will take they tried to reinvent a relationship with the classical painting. In a very indirect, maybe only virtual decisions for him and he will just follow orders. The barrack, the uniform (just to be like the others) way, there is a feeling in this movie that reminds us of those movies. I didn’t try to recreate the style: are for him the rule and the order in that chaos he doesn’t stand any more. On the contrary Nicola there’s no evident quotation or if there is one, it’s very distorted and hidden. is able to transform his university studies which do not interest him very much (at the beginning he’s a doctor not really convinced about his vocation), into his raison d’etre. He takes every chance to Lately I realize I identify myself with all the protagonists of a movie. At one time it was natural to know himself better. As soon as fortune favours him, he mounts it, without being afraid of falling espouse a point of view, to take part, to back someone. Now I don’t elude the charm of characters down or getting hurt. On the contrary, Matteo’s emotions, even the most generous ones, perish, that are completely different from me, even the most distanced. For example: Nicola and Matteo, the because he’s not able to follow them.