QUANDO L’ITALIA NON ERA UN PAESE POVERO
F.: Diana Canzano. Scgf.: Luisa Nisco. M.: Ilaria de Laurentiis. Mu.: Tony Pagliuca. Interviste a : Tinto Brass, Mark-Paul Meyer, Mario Musumeci, Pasquale Ojetti, Valentino Orsini, Maria Rosada, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Virgilio Tosi, Elena Travisi, Oberdan Trojani. P.: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia con la collaborazione della Fondation Européenne Joris Ivens. 16mm. D.: 45’ a 24 f/s.
Film Notes
A documentary about the documentary which Joris Ivens was commissioned by Enrico Mattei to make in Italy. Stefano Missio, interviewing the Taviani brothers, Tinto Brass and other personalities who assisted the great Dutch director in 1960, tells the disturbing story of a film which was censored and mysteriously disappeared.
Quando L’Italia non era un paese povero provides a brief sequence of several clips which were cut by the censorship in 1960 and never seen in Italy. The documentary also contains several clips by the Dutch director, shown here for the first time.
The documentary includes accounts by witnesses such as the directors Valentino Orsini, the Taviani brothers, Tinto Brass and Virgilio Tosi, the famous editor Maria Rosada, director of photography Oberdan Trojani and staff of the Dutch and Italian film archives Mark-Paul Meyer and Mario Musumeci, the journalist Pasquale Ojetti and the synchroniser and editor Elena Travisi. Documentary and photographic material comes from the Fondation Européenne Joris Ivens, from the Italian Journalistic Agency, from the Associazione Fondo Alberto Moravia and from several archives and private collections.