The Camorra – The series Of Giuseppe Tornatore will be previewed on Thursday 26 October at the eighteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival.
The five-part series was filmed in 1985, at the same time as the film of the same name, produced by Titanus Produzione and ReteItalia and released in theaters in 1986. The series was never broadcast; the current reworking was produced by Titanus Production and RTI – Mediaset and is distributed by Minerva Pictures. The restoration was carried out by Tornatore himself: the public will be able to watch the first and fourth episodes at 7pm in the Sala Sinopoli.
The following day, the filmmaker who won an Oscar and Grand Prix at Cannes for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso will be a guest at the Rome Film Festival for a meeting with the public which will be held at 4pm again in Sala Sinopoli.
Giuseppe Tornatore explains in one of his letters, released in the press alongside the news:
“The fate of my first film, Il camorrista, was curious. In order to do so, the producer Goffredo Lombardo from the Titan he proposed that I also make a serialized version for television. A gamble ahead of its time, we were in 1985, serial fever was still far away, but thanks to Lombardo’s foresight we had the budget needed to carry out the project.
I therefore shot both the film intended for traditional cinematographic exploitation and the five one-hour episodes for television at the same time. Unfortunately, the film did not have an easy life due to the burning issues it dealt with and disappeared from circulation a few weeks after its release in cinemas. Discouraged, the distributors never aired the television series, and the five episodes were lost in the 35mm warehouses..
Photo @Stefano Schirato
Today, after about forty years, thanks to the production revival of the glorious Titanus brand, those five hours have re-emerged from the shadows and Guido Lombardo, together with the new managers, asked me to restore and re-edit them. I willingly joined the undertaking, which it entailed a new 4k scan of the original media, an innovative color correction, a prodigious remake of the mono sound reconverted to 5.1, and the resize in 16:9 format from the original 1:33.
The editing remained intact, but with slight lightening to reduce the duration of each episode to approximately fifty-five minutes. Returning to a project created when I was little more than a boy was a real thrill, because I found in it all the commitment and enthusiasm that had brought me closer to the profession of cinema.”.
Foto: Titanus Production, RTI
Source: Cinema Foundation for Rome
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2023-10-13 14:50:55
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