Il papà di Giovanna
Italia / Italy 2008, 35mm, col., 104′
Bologna, 1938. Michele Casali is in a desperate situation. Giovanna, his only daughter and still a teenager, killed out of jealousy her classmate and best friend. The upper-class environment of which they’re part of, is shook up with emotion and disbelief. The girl manages to avoid prison, but she is declared clinically insane and confined in a psychiatric hospital in Reggio Emilia. There she will stay up until the age of 24 (1945). During this time of isolation, her father, who has moved to Reggio from Bologna where he taught art at the “Liceo Galvani”, is the only person who takes care of her. Giovanna is a girl with serious mental issues, and she looks a lot like her father. Since when she was little, Michele would always try to reassure her and help her overcome her weaknesses by teaching her to demand anything she wanted from anybody.[:]
Regia / Director Pupi Avati soggetto, sceneggiatura / screenplay, subject Carla Giulia Casarini, Ugo Chiti, Francesco Nuti fotografia / cinematographer Maurizio Calvesi montaggio / editing Ugo De Rossi musica / music Riccardo Galardini, Giovanni Nuti costumi / costume designer Enrico Serafini scenografia / set decoration Virginia Vianello cast Francesco Nuti, Francesca Neri, Agathe De La Fontaine, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Giorgio Palombi genere / genre commedia / comedy produzione / production Medusa Film, FrancescAndrea s.r.l., TELE + distribuzione / distribution Universal Pictures |