Pietro Germi, il bravo il bello e il cattivo

Written by Manuela Tempesta

Directed by Claudio Bondì

With Lando Buzzanca, Claudia Cardinale, Stefania Casini, Virna Lisi, Gianni Morandi, Edoardo Nevola , Stefania Sandrelli, Elena Varzi

Produced by Alessandro Bonifazi and Chiara Bondì for Blue Film, Andrea Paris and Matteo Rovere for Ascent  Film, LA7with the contribution of Assessorato Cultura, Spettacolo and Sport Area Cinema, Audiovisivi e Programmi Europei della Regione Lazio

SYNOPSIS

Pietro Germi: The Good, the Handsome, the Bad charts Pietro Germi’s film career through interviews with his actors: Lando Buzzanca, Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, Stefania Sandrelli, Elena Varzi; colleagues Pupi Avati and Carlo Lizzani; film historians Adriano Aprà, Mario Sesti and Marco Vanelli, as well as his collaborators and relatives. The film centres around the four significant periods of Pietro Germi’s work: neorealism, his great genre films, the invention of the Italian comedy and his attempts, towards the end of his career, to follow new narrative structures. A sixty minute portrait that reveals the formidable cinematic legacy of “the great carpenter”, as his friend Federico Fellini affectionately called him.

Festival International du Film de Cannes 2009: Cannes Classics

Kyiv International Film Festival 2009: Molodist    Art Life

SplitInternational Festival of New Film 2010: Reflections

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