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Il Film di Mario (1999)
Directed by Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni Piperno
Documentary, Comedy
It's Christmas. Mario, a forty-year-old unemployed grandfather who lives by his wits but has an equally chronic dream of becoming an actor, is hired as a caretaker (sixteen hours a day) of a grotesque nativity scene set up on the main street of Bari by a photographer who uses it as a backdrop for photographing children. For us, it's a great opportunity to make a documentary about him... But for Mario, too, we are an excellent opportunity to make his film, the dream he had in his drawer, the film about his life: we are his crew and he is the director! The result is a constant battle: between us, who want moments of the real Mario, the cheerful and optimistic one despite the objective difficulties of his existence, and him, who proposes a tragic but partial Mario, convinced that by loading his testimony with suffering and melodrama, the story of his life will have more appeal...
Cast
Nico Cirasola
Crew
- Director
- Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni Piperno
Details
- Release date
- 1999-12-12
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian