DETAILS Title: Miracolo Aquilano (The Aquila Miracle) Country: Italiy, 2011 Language: Italian Subtitles: inglese / francese Lenght: 14 minutes Genre: Drama Filmed in: L’Aquila (Bazzano, Fossa, Onna, Paganica, Scoppito) in May 2010 Filmed with: Red One 4K Projection format: DCP Sound: Dolby Digital Budget: 20.000 euros Company credits: Berta Film www.bertafilm.it Dmen s.r.l. www.dmen.it Macromax-VDO www.macromax-vdo.net Home page: www.bertafilm.it
SYNOPSIS L’Aquila Sept. 2009. A conman dressed as a priest, blesses homes built for local people after the earthquake, but pockets donations and steals valuables left behind in the ruins of the ghost town.
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CAST & CREW Directed by: Stefano Mutolo, Marco Iannini Written by: Marco Iannini, Stefano Mutolo, with Fausto Russo Alesi Produced by: Eugenio Mucciconi, Isidoro Vagnozzi, Claudio Tallè, Pia Brown, Stefano Mutolo, Marco Iannini Executive Producer: Luca Cusella Director of Photography and Camera Operator: Mario Amura Film Editor: Clelio Benevento Sound: Giuseppe Silvi Original Music by: Tommaso Lambertucci Production Design by: Velia Gabriele, Susanna Stigler Cast: Fausto Russo, Alesi Eva Martelli, Annalisa Lori, Federico Fiorenza, Leonardo Nolletti, Alberto Puliafito Conforming Artist: Camilla Murray Assistant Director: Stefano Petti Assistant Operator: Simone Scarozza Second Assistant Operators: Eugenio Barzaghi, Michel Tripepi Red Technician: Giulio Frizzi Data manager: Claudio Tallè Electrician: Nicola Ragone Production Manager: Cristina de Carolis Production Assistant: Martina Mengozzi Still Photographer: Alessandro Fusco Story editor: Antonio Mingarelli, Fabrizio Lucherini Editor Assistant: Emily Greene Subtitles by: Emanuela Monaldi, Paolo Nistri, Francesca Iannini, Georges Vraux Postproduction: Ermanno De Nicola, Enzo Pepe Color Correction: Cineforum Teramo
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DIRECTORS’ NOTES The main theme of the short film ‘The Aquila Miracle’ is the contradiction between the actual and constructed reality that the town of L’Aquila has lived since the earthquake. The former is that of a community destroyed by the quake. The latter is a big pretence, almost a L’Aquila-shaped film set, propped up by the media to portray a reconstructed town that has re-emerged from under the rubble. The real reconstruction, however, never happened. In L’Aquila and its surrounding areas, tons of debris is still left untouched from 6th April 2009, whilst weeds engulf roads and stray animals roam freely. Life seems frozen still in the crumbling and hazardous buildings. Meanwhile, scores of people still live in hotels and barracks or in council flats on the coast, hundreds of kilometres away from their town. There is no plan for reconstruction. From the outset we sought to portray L’Aquila as no man’s land, even when, in September 2009, Onna’s pleasant prefabricated houses were delivered and it all seemed settled. Instead, that was the beginning of a bitter and disturbing illusion. Today the people of L’Aquila are still desperately trying to take back their town, after false prophets, such as our Don Rocco, have taken advantage of the chaos to sell false hopes. The film is shot from the controversial view point of both a jackal and a voyeur, something we have all been at least once in front of live TV images. Our final aim is to overcome television’s manipulations of its reports and imagery by scrutinising this tragedy and its invisible protagonists through cinema’s penetrating lens.
PRODUCTION NOTES To convey the reality of a land abandoned to its own devices, we worked with a team that really understood the trauma that L’Aquila experienced. We also secured the support of three outstanding professionals of Italian cinema: Fausto Russo Alesi (Actor), Mario Amura (Director of photography) and Clelio Benevento (Editor). Both Mario Amura and Clelio Benevento worked in L’Aquila on the film ‘Draquila’, directed by Sabina Guzzanti. The logistical and economic support provided by businesses in Teramo and L’Aquila, and the firefighters and citizens of L’Aquila was indispensable. In particular, we could not have made this film without the support of our sponsors and co-producers, Dmen Srl and Macromax, all of whom believed and invested in the project.
FILMOGRAPHIES Fausto Russo Alesi (leading actor) In Memoria di Me (Costanzo, 2007) Vincere ( Bellocchio, 2009)
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La Doppia Ora (Capotondi, 2009) La Passione (Mazzacurati, 2010) Theater: Natura Morta in Un Fosso (Sinigaglia, 2005), Il Silenzio dei Comunisti (Ronconi, 2006), Fahrenheit 451 (Ronconi, 2007), Il Bosco degli Spiriti (Ronconi, 2008), Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate (Ronconi, 2008), L’Aggancio (Sinigaglia, 2009), I Demoni (Stein, 2009), Il Mercante di Venezia (Ronconi, 2009), 20 Novembre (Russo Alesi)
Mario Amura (director of photography) Vento di Terra (Marra, 2004) Melissa P (Guadagnino, 2004) L’Udienza è Aperta (Marra, 2006) In Memoria di Me (Costanzo, 2007) Due Vite per Caso (Aronadio, 2010) Draquila – L’Italia che Trema (Guzzanti, 2010) Into Paradiso (Randi, 2010) Director of Racconto di Guerra (2003), David di Donatello as best short film
Clelio Benevento (editor) Viva Zapatero! (Guzzanti, 2005) Le Ragioni dell’Aragosta (Guzzanti, 2007) Il Capo dei Capi (serie TV, 2007) Fortapàsc (Risi, 2009) Intelligence – Servizi & Segreti (TV serie, 2009) Draquila – L’Italia che Trema (Guzzanti, 2010) La Passione (Mazzacurati, 2010)
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