Fortapàsc

 
   
 
Director: Marco Risi
Screenplay: Jim Carrington, Andrea Purgatori, Marco Risi
Photography: Marco Onorato
Sound: Massimo Simonetti
Cast: Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino, Massimiliano Gallo, Ernesto Mahieux, Salvatore Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Gianfranco Gallo, Antonio Buonomo, Roberto Calabrese, Raffaele Vassallo, Kyung Mi Lee, Mimmo Mignemi, Nadia Carlomagno, Salvatore Striano; with the partecipation of: Ennio Fantastichini, Duccio Camerini, Renato Carpentieri, Ginafelice Imparato, Marcello Mazzarella, Daniele Pecci
Editing: Clelio Benevento
Production: Angelo Barbagallo and Gianluca Curti for BIBI Film, Rai Cinema, Minerva Pictures Group, with the support of MiBAC
International Distribution: Rai Trade, via Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Rome (Italy), tel. +39 06 37498244, fax +39 06 37516222, rossi@raitrade.it, cifola@raitrade.it, www.raitrade.com
Year: 2009. Running Time: 110’
 
In 1985, at the age of 26, Giancarlo Siani (Libero De Rienzo), a reporter for the local newpaper Il Mattino was killed by the “Camorra” (Neapolitan Mafia) by ten gun shots. He loved both his life and his work. He would gather information, dig up hard facts, investigating and checking them carefully, often to a fault and to the Camorra’s dislike. It was his investigative spirit which would lead to his downfall. The film tells of his last four months, when he traveled daily from the genteel Vomero neighborhood where he lived, to the hellish mafia realm of boss Valentino Gionta (Massimiliano Gallo) in Torre Annunziata. At that time, criminal interests were focused on profiting from the post-earthquake construction, and Giancarlo was investigating the corruption in earthquake reconstruction efforts. He observed and he understood. He moved among members of the mafia, corrupt politicians, timid prosecutors and helpless policemen. He was like a lily in the mud. The night he was killed, he was supposed to go to Vasco Rossi’s rock-concert with his girlfriend.
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
  

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
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Marco Risi
Born in Milan in 1951, the son of well known director Dino Risi, after two years of studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, he quit college and followed his father’s tracks, becoming assistant director to his uncle Nelo Risi in the film Una stagione all’inferno. Later he worked with Duccio Tessari. In 1978 he shot a documentary Appunti su Hollywood (Hollywood Notes) broadcast on RaiUno. As a screenplay writer he co-wrote Caro Papà in 1979 and Sono fotogenico (I am Photogenic) in 1980, both directed by his father Dino Risi. In 1982 he directed his first feature film Vado a vivere da solo with actor Jerry Calà, then Colpo di fulmine. With Soldati 365 at Dawn he approached more socially-committed subjects but it was with Mery Forever in 1989 that Marco Risi was recognized as an accomplished director and was awarded the national Ciak d’Oro, the Sacher Prize and the Jury Prize at Montreal International Film festival. In 1990, Ragazzi fuori (Boys on the Outside), a sequel to Mery Forever, received numerous awards such as another Ciak d’Oro for Best Collective Interpretation, the David di Donatello for Best Direction and the Osella d’Oro at Venice International Festival 1990. In 1991, for his film Il muro di gomma he received the Golden Lion at Venice Festival. In the same year, together with producer Maurizio Tedesco, he founded his own production company “Sorpasso Film” after the title of his father Dino Risi’s famous film with Vittorio Gassman as main character. In 1992, he produced Mille bolle blu (Thousand Blue Bubbles) by Leone Pompucci and in 1995 Camerieri, by the same director, was awarded at Venice International Film Festival and in Stockholm. In 1994 he also produced Le buttane by Aurelio Grimaldi and the much discussed Il branco based on the novel by Andrea Carraro. With Hamam, the first feature film by Ferzan Özpetek, Marco Risi received the Best Producer award in 1998. In the same year, he made the grotesque Caput Mundi, an adaptation of a short story by Niccolò Ammanniti. In 2001 he shot Three Wives and in 2007 Maradona. God’s Hand, a biography of the famous soccer player Diego Maradona. His latest work Fortapàsc (2009) has been awarded many prizes such as the Golden Globe assigned by the foreign press to the Best Director, in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Flaiano Prize for Best Direction, the Sergio Amidei Prize for Best Screenplay, and the FAC Prize.