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Title: looking for sophia - a documentary about Sophia Loren
Genre: Documentary
Lenght: 52’; 85’
country of Origin: Italy
year of production:
2004
format: digital betacam, v.o. it. sott. english, sott. francaise
direction:
roberto olla
subject:
roberto olla,
Laura e silvia Pettini
Screenplay:
roberto olla
original interviews to:
Ettore Scola, Omar Sharif, Robert Altman, Franco Freda, Rosa D’Isanto.
Clip from movies:
Aida - I girasoli - Il viaggio - La Ciociara - Boccaccio ’70 – La riffa- C’era una volta - Questi fantasmi - Ieri oggi domani - Cassandra Crossing - Madame Sans-Gêne - Matrimonio all’italiana - Una giornata particolare - Miseria e Nobiltà - Prêt-à-Porter
editing:
Danilo Perticara
executive production:
Laura e Silvia Pettini
co-Production:
Zdf/Arte – Avro – Rai Trade - rai uno - surf
Production:
Felix Film
with the partecipation of:
Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana
RaiUno e Rai Teche
with the support of:
media plus program
sales:
CP MEDIA LTD (ex urss)
TVR SOC. ROMANA DET (romania)
SOC. NOUVELLE DE DISTR. (francia)
SVERIGES TELEVISION AB (svezia)
YLE FINNISH BROADCASTING (finlandia)
SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE (australia)
MULTITEMATIQUES INC. (america latina)
SLOVENSKA TELEVIZIA (slovacchia)
ISRAEL EDUCATIONAL TV (israele)
BULBECK & MAS S.L. (spagna)
ERT S.A. (grecia)
AQUARIUS & AQUARIIUS LTD (portogallo)
SANOMA DIGITAL MEDIA ZRT (ungheria)
INTRA COMMUNICATIONS, INC (ex urss)
CANAL+CYFROWY SP. ZO.O. (polonia)
CESKA TELEVIZE (repubblica ceca)
BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION (bulgaria)
PCN LTD O.K. LINE STUDIO (ungheria)
RUDINA KOCI (albania)
GLOBOSAT PROGRAMADORA LTD (brasile)
NORD LICENSE AS. (norvegia)
THE HISTORY CHANNEL IBERIa (spagna)
CINECITTA' LUCE SPA (italia)
HISTORY CHANNEL (Pay Tv - italia)
RAI 5 (Free Tv - italia)
MINISTERO degli ESTERI/RAPPRESENTANZE ITALIANE NEL MONDO (italia)
internation Distribution:
Rai Trade
Synopsis
Sophia Loren: her maiden name is Sofia Scicolone, she was first known in romantic picture stories as Sofia Lazzaro. Sophia is three women in one. Who’s Sophia? Who is she really? She is an heroine, according to what Anthony Burgess wrote about her. There’s a secret about Sophia.
Sophia herself holds a secret, and she knows what we mean: she is an icon, a symbol of the last century that’s still able to fascinate us. In our journey through the historical events, Sophia is like a friend for us. Sophia is a lover, a wife, a mother. “Instead of an actress, she is a monument: a monument to sex”, writes the New York Times. Sophia is the perfect lover. Sophia made great efforts and faced up to all difficulties to marry Carlo Ponti.: his distressing divorce, the accusations of bigamy, the trip to Mexico, the French citizenship. Sophia wanted to be a wife and is still determined to be a wife, a perfect wife. Sophia wanted a real family and she got it. In the land of cinema industry, with crazy and excited stars, she got a family.
A very different family from the one she came from: her father never married her mother, he had two other relationships and many children, not an average family. During her childhood she experienced hunger and poverty the war had caused (Italian Campaign against nazis and fascists), the same poverty that Europe had to face during and after the Second World War.
She spent her childhood and youth in Pozzuoli, Naples, beside the Vesuvius; she lived in “Via Solfatara”, street of sulfuric fumes. Sophia has been in prison: she spent nineteen days in jail; a star like her in jail like a criminal, in an Italian prison as if she were a thief. We’d like to say that Sophia is a mystery to discover, is a secret we must know: Sophia is the soul of a century and the incarnation of a dream. How much is there to know about Sophia? Sophia has a special relationship with food, Sophia loves food, loves cooking, she has written a cook book , with many Mediterranean recipes.
Good food blends with lovers, wives, mothers. Denis De Rougemont wrote that last century made marriage and sex, wives and lovers, be as one. According to Denis De Rougemont, the nineteenth Century achieved that love had to be a part of marriage and not as it used to be for Romeo and Juliet or Tristram and Isolde where love was a condemnation. Love and marriage, a marriage of love; love, sex and marriage together as a whole is last Century’s inheritance. And it’s Sophia’s law. Sophia is a feeling throughout history, she is indeed first of all, a feeling. Then, she is an actress, an Hollywood star, an European star. AND NOW WE’LL GO ON A JOURNEY TO LOOK FOR SOPHIA.
Festival:
Palazzo Doria Pamphili
Valmontone, 20 march 2005
The Contact – International Documentary Film Festival
Kiev, 24 - 29 april 2005
Campidano Film Festival
San Sperate Samassi, 20 september – 20 dicember 2008
public screenings:
RAI UNO - Italy's tv premiere
25 september 2004 - h 23:00
AVRO - holland's tv premiere
19 september 2004 – h 18:30
ARTE – Germany's tv premiere
17 september 2004 – h 22:00
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