Valerio Zurlini. Gli anni delle immagini perdute

“Gli anni delle immagini perdute” is a film-documentary about Valerio Zurlini, film director from Emilia-Romagna and author of masterpieces such as “La ragazza con la valigia” and “Deserto dei tartari”.
The film is inspired by the title of the film director’s diary, written from November 1981 to May 1982 and, particularly, by three screenplays of films which were never made. It is a spiritual testament, written while Zurlini was ill (he died in October 1982) that leaves evidence of those “lost images”, the many movies that he wrote and prepared without ever being able to complete them. The director takes his inspiration from those pages and goes back to the places where Zurlini loved to hide (secret Venice filmed during a snow fall, Riccione in the winter, the Cathedral of Parma), collecting contributions from friends and collaborators: Jacques Perrain, Zurlini’s favorite actor, Weiss, his assistant director, Claudia Cardinale, Giorgio Albertazzi.
He proposes Zurlini’s collection of interviews and conversations, as he tries to understand the causes of Zurlini’s productivity forced “silence”, a common occurrence in the history of Italian cinema among many great directors in their late years: De Santis, Fellini, Antonioni.
“Gli anni delle immagini perdute” was produced by Doc Art in collaboration with Rai Cinema, Rai Teche, Titanus, Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Emilia-Romagna Region. Eugenio Persico was in charge of photography and editing; original score by Pasquale Catalano; and narrator is Giovanni Crippa.

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REGIA:
Adolfo Conti
PRODUZIONE:
Doc Art
NAZIONALITÀ:
Italia
ANNO:
2013
DURATA:
87’
PRESENTAZIONE:
Sezione Venezia Classici della 69a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia