Title: ITALIAN MIRACLE - ten years to remember (1957- 1967)

Genre: documentary
lenght: 4 episodes, 52 minutes long
format: DGbeta v.o. it. - voice over ing.
country of origin: italy
year of production: 2009

director:
Stefano Grossi

WITH the PARTECIPATION OF:
Giuseppe ferrara
francesco maselli
florestano vancini
paul ginsborg
Roberto silvestri

photography:
aldo di marcantonio

editing:
luca mandrile

readings from the prose and poetry of pier paolo pasolini are performed by:
Gianmarco tognazzi E Stefania orsola garello

co-Production:
vostok film - Felix Film

sales:
CP MEDIA LTD (ex urss)
B4 CAPITAL SA (albania/kosovo)

International distribution:
Rai Trade

Synopsis

The four part television documentary Italian Miracle recounts a decade of Italian history in the twentieth century, using 16 Italian documentaries made between 1957 and 1967 from nine directors of a major period in film set between the 1950s and 1960s.

Many of these authors made brief incursions into documentary film early in their cinematic careers before going on to the fiction films which brought them later national and international fame. We are talking about:
Bernardo Bertolucci , Marco Bellocchio, Francesco Maselli, Florestano Vancini, Ennio Lorenzini, Giuseppe Ferrara, Piero Nelli, Giuseppe Taffarel e Luigi Di Gianni.

The repertoire of documentaries is the core of the film: selected and used as abstracts, instruments and direct evidence of filmmakers in a special period of history. The documentaries are of different genres and formats: color and black and white, silent and sound, intact or damaged or poorly maintained.

other title

PITRè STORIES
by Alessandro D’Alessandro and Marco Leopardi (Italy, 75', documentary, 2011)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ITALY - Memories from a bygone country (1957-1967)
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, 75’, documentary, 2011)

TALKING ABOUT CINEMA
by Carlo Lizzani, Laura Pettini, Silvia Pettini
(Italy, a collection of 31 documentaries (interviews), 2000-2010)

CLOUD MAN
by Stefano Mordini (Italy, 54', documentary, 2009)

ITALIAN MIRACLE - TEN YEARS TO REMEMBER (1957-1967)
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, A DOCUMENTARY IN 4 EPISODES OF 52’, 2009)

DIARIES OF THE 1900’S
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, a collection of 30 documentaries (interviews), 2009 / FORMAT)

THE UNIONIST (GIUSEPPE DI VITTORIO, VOCI DI IERI E DI OGGI)
by Carlo Lizzani and Francesca Del Sette (Italy, 52', documentary, 2009)

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 52', documentary, 2009)

luchino visconti, life as a novel
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 60', documentary, 2008)

VALLE D'AOSTA (LES MONTAGNARDS SONT LÀ!)
by Piergiorgio Gay (Italy, 60', documentary, 2008)

BEING CLAUDIA CARDINALE
by Stefano Mordini (Italy,52’, documentary, 2006)

The perfect fit
by Piergiorgio Gay (Italy, documentary, 2005)

Looking for SOPHIA
by Roberto Olla (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2004)

CESARE ZAVATTINI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2003)

The Off-screen Director
by fedele aula (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2002)

ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 64’, documentary, 2001)

ROBERTO ROSSELLINi, FRAGMENTS AND SPEECHES
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 74’, documentary, 2001)

LUCHINO VISCONTI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 60’, documentary,1999)