| Director: | Maura Delpero |
|---|---|
| Production: | Cinedora (Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sancet), Charades Productions (Carole Baraton, Pauline Boucheny Pinon), Versus Production (Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Tatjana Kozar) |
| Running Time: | 119’ |
| Language: | Italian, dialect |
| Country: | Italy, France, Belgium |
| Main Cast: | Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardner, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Bendetti, and with Sara Serraiocco |
| Screenplay: | Maura Delpero |
| Cinematographer: | Mikhail Krichman |
| Editor: | Luca Mattei |
| Production Designer: | Pirra, Vito Giuseppe Zito, Marina Pozanco |
| Costume Designer: | Andrea Cavalletto |
| Music: | Matteo Franceschini |
| Sound: | Dana Farzanehpour, Hervé Guyader, Emmanuel de Boissieu |
| Visual Effects: | Benjamin Ageorges |
Cinema
Vermiglio
Venezia 81 Competition
Synopsis
In four seasons nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature.
One can lose the path that led safely home, one can sail seas towards unknown lands.
In four seasons one can die and be reborn.
Vermiglio tells of the last year of the Second World War in a large family and how, by a paradox of fate, with the arrival of a refugee soldier it loses its peace at the very moment in which the world finds its own.
Director’s Statement
My father left us one summer afternoon. Before closing them forever, he looked at us with the big, amazed eyes of a child. I had already heard that when you get older you become a little child again, but I didn’t know that those two ages could merge into a single face. In the months that followed, he came to visit me in a dream. He had returned to his childhood home, in Vermiglio. He was six years old, he had a toothless smile, the legs of a mountain goat and was carrying this film under his arm: four seasons in the life of his large family. A story of children and adults, amongst deaths and births, disappointments and rebirths, of their holding each other tight in the turns of life, and out of a community growing into individuals. Of the smell of wood and warm milk on freezing mornings. With the distant and ever-present war, experienced by those who remained outside the great machine: the mothers who watched the world from a kitchen, with newborns dying because of blankets that were too short, the women who feared they were already widows, the farmers who waited for sons who never returned, the teachers and priests who replaced the fathers. A story of war without bombs, or great battles. In the uncompromising logic of the mountain that every day reminds man how small he is.
Vermiglio is a landscape of the soul, a “family lexicon” that lives inside me, on the threshold of the unconscious, an act of love for my father, his family and their small village. Travelling through a personal time, it wants to pay homage to a collective memory.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1: Cinedora - Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli
Via Madonna dei Monti, 30
00184 Rome, Italia
Tel. +39(0)688791713
info@cinedora.com
www.cinedora.com
PRODUCTION 2: CHARADES PRODUCTIONS – Carole Baraton, Pauline Boucheny
3 Rue des cottages
75018, Paris, France
Tel. 33 615689255
pauline@charades.eu
PRODUCTION 3: VERSUS PRODUCTION – Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Tatjana Kozar
68 Rue de la croix de pierre
1060 Brussels, Belgium
Tel. 32 486697993
tatjana@versusproduction.be
WORLD SALES: CAROLE BARATON- CHARADES
3 Rue des cottages
75018, Paris, France
Tel. 33 620367772
carole@charades.eu
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: ANDREA OCCHIPINTI - LUCKY RED
Largo Italo Gelmini 1
00161 Rome, Italy
Tel. 39 335373855
a.occhipinti@luckyred.it
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Federica De Sanctis
Tel. +39 335 1548137
fededesanctis69@gmail.com
Gabriele Barcaro
gabriele.barcaro@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL PRESS OFFICE: Claudia Tomassini + Associates
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