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Friday 8 April in the Dumas Room of the French Institute of Naples the film that tells the purely human events of the Poet, with Gigi Savoia and Paola Tortora
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After his long and tormented almost twenty-year exile, up and down the Italian courts of the fourteenth century, Dante lands in Naples. The documentary film “Dante, the exile of a poet” directed by Fabrizio Bancale and produced by Dante Alighieri Societyalready selected atItalian Contemporary Film Festival in Toronto, will be screened on Friday 8 April at 8 pm in the Sala Dumas of theFrench Institute of Naples (via Francesco Crispi, 86) with free admission.
Visionary, mystical, prophetic, Dante has left us a still vital message that we can recognize by visiting the places where he himself lived or passed, more than seven centuries ago. With an exciting journey through images, “Dante, the exile of a Poet” follows in the footsteps of the fugitive Ghibellin in his almost twenty-year escape from Florence, between populous provincial capitals and small medieval villages almost abandoned, between castles and monasteries.
The documentary, made on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poetaims to tell and discover a different Danteless academic and more humaneunderlining its contemporaneity. Ours has been a real and visionary journey who, starting from the places and crossing some of the most significant pages of Dante’s production, wants to try to stimulate new perspectives, suggestions, enchantments, explains the director Fabrizio Bancale.
The journey begins in the lands of Tuscany and Romagna: from the valleys of the Garfagnana, to the banks of the Arno, where Dante lived the first turbulent years of his exile, amidst battles, anger, illusions and profound disappointments. Then in the Lunigiana area, where he was welcomed by the noble Malaspina family to experience a brief moment of quiet that allowed him to return to devote himself to poetry. We will reach the Casentino where, among the fiefdoms of the Guidi counts, Dante concluded the first two cantiche of the Divine Comedy, Hell and Purgatory. But his restless spirit of him and will lead him to move again, first to Verona, to the court of Cangrande della Scala, lord of the city of Verona, to whom he will dedicate the last cantica of his Comedy; and finally in Ravenna. Here Dante ends his earthly existence, and on his tomb the journey also ends.
An elderly homeless man (Gigi Savoia) and a bizarre traveler with a passion for drawing (Paola Tortora) guide the vision and listening., accompanied by a couple of street musicians (Canio Loguercio and Giovanna Famulari) and a disturbing Spanish monk (Alfonso Desentre). They are the ones who give us moments of Dante’s poetry, sing triplets, tell the atmosphere and characters of the “Divine Comedy” through the tip of a pencil. In a continuous chase between reality and fiction, concludes Bancale. They are also part of the crew and performers Penelope Zaccarini and Mario Di Fonzo. For about 70 minutes, testimonies, anecdotes and legends about Dante’s exile alternate around these characters, paying homage to the Poet by flying on the wings of imagination, mystery and poetry, through the centuries and through the history of Italy. At the end of the screening there will be a debate with the director and cast moderated by the journalist and theater critic Giulio Baffi.
Fabrizio Bancale author and director of theatrical shows, television broadcasts, documentaries and short films. Among his works, “The disappeared ring” (best documentary at the Naples Film Festival 2009); “Renato Carosone – The smile in music”; “Samosely – Illegal Residents of Chernobyl” (best documentary al Social World Film Festival 2017 and best film at the Fausto Rossano Award) and in 2019 “Roots – The black gold of Calabria”. The latest film of him from an idea of Lamberto Lambertini and the historical advice of Alberto Casadei, Gino Ruozzi and Marco Vegliawritten with the collaboration of Germano Rubbithe photograph of Francesco Masimontage of Giovanni Marolla. The original music is by Pericles Today.
April 1, 2022 | 18:47
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