Cinema
within the XVII Week of Italian Language in the World
For the first time in South Africa, "Amarcord" -one of Federico Fellini’s masterpieces- is screened in its restored version curated by the famous film restoration laboratory of the Cineteca di Bologna film archives L’Immagine Ritrovata.
The screening is accompanied by an introductory speech by Elena Correra, specialist in the field of preservation and enhancement of photographic archives, who presents the movie restoration process.
On the occasion, the exhibit “Food in the drawings by Federico Fellini” is also on display.
Realized by Emilia-Romagna Region Culture Dept. and Municipality of Rimini, it is composed by 19 drawings made by the Maestro in different moments of his career, almost all splattered at the table –made on paper and on cloth napkins– and coming mostly from his “Libro dei sogni” (the Book of Dreams), a dreamlike journal kept for about thirty years.
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from 23/10/2017 to 23/10/2017 hour 18.00
Amarcord
Written by: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Director of photography: Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing: Ruggero Mastroianni
Set Design: Danilo Donati
Music: Nino Rota
Starring: Bruno Zanin (Titta), Pupella Maggio (Miranda), Armando Brancia (Aurelio), Stefano Proietti (Oliva), Giuseppe Ianigro (nonno di Titta), Nandino Orfei (il Pataca), Ciccio Ingrassia (Teo), Carla Mora (Gina), Magali Noël (Gradisca), Luigi Rossi (the lawyer)
Italy/France, 1974
Restored by Cineteca di Bologna in 2015 from the original camera negative, with the support of yoox.com and Municipality of Rimini, in collaboration with Cristaldifilm and Warner Bros.
Twenty years after I vitelloni, the history of the escape from Italian province, Fellini comes back to this small world, re-creating in Cinecittà his home country and his adolescence. The protagonist of the film is the family of Titta Benzi, a Fellini's long-standing friend. Amarcord poetically treats big themes like the fragility of life and the beauty while following Titta’s memories across one year; the film is a black and grotesque picture of the human nature, described with tenderness, sensuality and scathing irony. Amarcord is the melancholy portrait of Italy by Federico Fellini: a little world, immature and conventional.
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Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria in collaboration with Regione Emilia-Romagna and
Cineteca di Bologna
