NEWS
S H OT I N S O U T H T Y R O L
F I N A L TO U C H
Mordach
A noi rimane il mondo
S H OT I N S O U T H T Y R O L
Cuma Ozan (Mehmet Kurtuluş, seen left in the picture) is on a trip of self-discovery in the village of Mordach when Laura Brunner, the daughter of the most important man in the valley, is found dead. As the last person to have seen her alive, Cuma is the prime suspect. But he has a secret: For years, he’s been working as an undercover investigator in Frankfurt’s clan world. His superior asks him to investigate the murder alongside rookie small-town police officer Toni Brandner (Sarah Bauerett, right). The two-part TV series Mordach is a production by UFA Fiction and ARD Degeto for ARD and was directed by Roland Suso Richter based on a screenplay by Thomas Berger. It was filmed in South Tyrol (including in and around Bruneck) and Trento in June 2021.
ARD Degeto/UFA Fiction/R. S. Richter
Murder in the Valley
F I N A L TO U C H
Altrove Films
Art and Resistance
12
There’s a collective element to everything we do – even writing. In his documentary A noi rimane il mondo – Wu Ming and the art of radical resistance, South Tyrolean director Armin Ferrari examines the experimental storytelling of artists and activists from Bologna. His film explores the work of the “Wu Ming” (“no name”) writers’ collective, which was established there in the 1990s, capturing their avant-garde – and sometimes militant – approach to literature, art and politics. Throughout their history, the group of authors has managed to avoid the cameras and, after 25 years, this is the first film to be made about them. Besides Wu Ming, Ferrari’s film dives deeper into Italy’s artistic and cultural underground. The project was overseen by production company Altrove Films from Trento. Producer Roberto Cavallini, who is well connected within the South Tyrolean film scene, brought Bolzano-based Albolina Film on board as the service producer and assembled a crew largely consisting of South Tyroleans. The film was also shot in the province. One key scene involving the online group that uncovers fake news under the pseudonym “Nicoletta Bourbaki” was filmed in the library at Neustift Monastery near Brixen. Another shooting location was the site of the former Nazi transit camp in Bolzano, where partisan Giorgio Marincola was held before eventually being murdered by an SS unit in Val di Fiemme. As Ferrari’s directorial debut and Marina Baldo’s editorial debut, this exceptional project received support in areas including editing, post-production, festivals and distribution as part of “FINAL TOUCH #6: Intense Feedback from Experts”, an initiative by IDM and Bolzano Film Festival Bozen. “The experts gave us some very useful feedback on our rough cut,” says Roberto Cavallini. “Now we’ve completed the edit and are entering post-production – and we can’t wait for the premiere in fall.”
