Italy 2002; 23 min.

Giuliana Dea and her collaborators have created a documentary about a film taht is already more than fifty years old. A B/W film telling a beautiful and bitter story, speaking of a Milan no more existing. They have realised a documentary on one of the masterworks of Italian cinema, that Miracolo a Milano for which De Sica won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival.
The film presents sequences of the movie, based on the novel Totò il buono by Cesare Zavattini, interspersed with interviews to the witnesses of that set (from the female star Brunella Bovo, to the film critic Lorenzo Pellizzari) which for some time allowed Milan to dream of stealing a little limelight of the cinema world away from Rome. Between the real homeless people who took part in the movie as extras and a city still wounded by the war bombings, the author of this documentary build a path through the memory of a black and white cinema which gets new colors in the reconstruction of a society and a culture which are more and more remote. (Source: Filmmaker Festival, Milan)

Ideated by:

Giuliana Dea

Directed by:

Sanela Bajric

Story and Screenplay:

Giuliana Dea, Shantala Frigerio

Direction and Screenwriting Tutor:

Flavio Vida

Editing:

Maria Grazia D’Andrea, Andrea Gandolfo

Editing Tutor:

Sabrina Foti

Cameramen:

Sara Angelucci, Cristina Bergamini, Emanuela Palpi, Corrado Serri

Camera and Cinematography Tutor:

Luciano Baresi

Sound:

Laurent Marcolivio, Mauro Modugno

Sound Tutor:

Luciano Rorato

Cast:

Brunella Bovo, Carlo Castellaneta, Ivan Della Mea, Guido Lopez, Lorenzo Pellizzari, Emilio Pozzi, Guido Vergani, Tatti Sanguineti

Narrator:

Andrea Gandolfo

Production Direction:

Giovanni Grandi

Production Assistants:

Fabio Esposito, Matteo Meglioli

Production Tutor:

Nicola Bernasconi

Contacts:

Scuola di Cinema Televisione e Nuovi Media
Scuole Civiche di Milano
Fondazione di Partecipazione
via Colletta 51 - Milan (Italy)

• Filmmaker - 7th International Festival of Cinema and Video, Milan 2002: "Fuori Formato" series
• Filmondo - 28th International Festival of Tourist Film, Milan 2003: "Milano da filmare" Award

• Filmmaker Festival (only in Italian)

Biography:

Giuliana Dea was born in Milan in 1975. After attending the University of Milan with a major in History, she leaves academic studies to enroll in the Screenwriting Class at the Civic School of Cinema and Television Tecniques. After Viaggio intorno a "Miracolo a Milano", she has directed Il gioco del mondo nuovo (The game of the New World), a documentary on Giulio Cingoli.
(Source: Filmmaker Festival, Milan)