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the cinema origins and the silent movie period: “Il Cinema Ritrovato”.
This festival takes place every summer in several places of the historic
centre of Bologna, including piazza Maggiore, thus keeping the relationship between Bologna and the cinema alive and vital.
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9. Centochiodi
by Ermanno Olmi (2007)
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1. Edipo Re
by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1967)
Piazza Maggiore
Scene from Edipo Re by Pasolini
Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex) is a personal interpretation of Sophocles’s
tragedy. The prologue is set in the Twenties, the central part in a
barbarous Greece and the epilogue in a present-day Bologna: on
the steps of the Basilica di San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, a blind
beggar, played by the same actor (Franco Citti) that lends his face to
Oedipus, plays the flute. It’s the 1960s: the autobiographical connotation of the story is clear. Another epilogue scene is set in the portico of
the Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi (strada Maggiore, 43), along which
the present-day blind Oedipus wanders together with his faithful beggar fellow Anghelos (Ninetto Davoli). The Theban high priest is played by
Pasolini himself and Creon by a thirty-year-old Carmelo Bene.
2. Fatti di gente perbene
by Mauro Bolognini (1974)
Piazza Galvani, 1
Professor Augusto Murri, a well-known clinician and doctor of the Savoia
Royal House, is giving a lecture in the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio Palace: it is a scene from Fatti di gente perbene by Mauro Bolognini.
The film stars Giancarlo Giannini as Tullio Murri and Catherine Deneuve as
Linda Murri. The film was internationally released as The Murri Affair and
in fact it refers to an event involving the Murri family which upset public
opinion in Italy in the early XXth century: on September 2, 1902, Count
Francesco Bonmartini, the son-in-law of Augusto Murri, was found
stabbed to death in an elegant building in via Mazzini (today strada Maggiore) in Bologna. At first, the motive appeared to be robbery, but nine
days later, the renowned clinician reported to the police and declared
that the person responsible for the murder was his son Tullio. The public
prosecutor charged Tullio with premeditated murder at the instigation of
his sister Linda and both of them were convicted. The dramatic intensity
of the film is highlighted by the music soundtrack by the composer Ennio
Morricone. Fatti di gente perbene also stars a four-year Kim Rossi Stuart
and his sister Loretta as Deneuve’s children.
3. Gino Cervi
Via Cartoleria, 3 – birthplace
A plaque at the corner between via Cartoleria and via
S. Stefano commemorates
the birth of Gino Cervi on 3rd
May 1901. Beside the roles of
Maigret and Peppone, we remember him as the dubber
of Laurence Olivier and Orson
Welles. In 1954, Gino Cervi appears as the main character
of a film entirely shot in BoBirthplace of Gino Cervi
logna: Il Cardinale Lambertini,
directed by Giorgio Pastina, inspired by the homonymous theatrical work
by Alfredo Testoni of 1905, and focused on the charismatic figure of the
cardinal, who was to become Pope Benedict XIV in 1740.
4. Il cuore altrove
by Pupi Avati (2003)
Strada Maggiore, 44
In Il cuore altrove (Incantato) Nello (Neri Marcorè) is a
professor of Latin literature
during the Twenties.
He is sent from Rome to
Bologna by his father (Giancarlo Giannini) in order to
overcome his shyness with
women: he will lose his head
for Angela, a young blind
person (Vanessa InconPalazzo Davia Bargellini
trada). In the seventeenthcentury palace Davia Bargellini, Pupi Avati sets the scenes of the circle of
hunting, where Nello and Angela spend their first day together.
5. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Via Borgonuovo, 4 – birthplace
“What does Bologna have, which is so beautiful? Winter with the sun
and the snow, the barbarically azure air on the cotto brick.” (Pier
Paolo Pasolini). A plaque in via Borgonuovo 4 commemorates the
birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Bologna on 5th March 1922. Pasolini attends the Liceo Galvani and at the age of seventeen he enrols at the
University of Bologna. He also attends a film club, where he sees all
of René Clair’s films, Renoir’s early works, and some films by Chaplin:
“My love for the cinema started there”.
6. E allora Mambo!
by Lucio Pellegrini (1999)
Piazza S. Stefano
In the film E allora Mambo! (screenplay by Fabio Bonifacci) Stefano
(Luca Bizzarri) is an employee who feels unsatisfied with his work
and is nostalgic for his carefree life as a student in Bologna. He is
married and has a daughter.
His life changes radically when a sum of six billion is credited by
mistake into his account. He, therefore, decides to return to Bologna
and resume his life as a student; this decision leads him to invent a
double life and find himself married and father twice.
In piazza Santo Stefano, Lisa (Luciana Littizzetto) and Antonia
(Maddalena Maggi), Stefano’s two wives, meet for the first time: they
will gang up on him.
7. AmeriQua
by M. Bellone e G. Consonni (2013)
Piazza di Porta Ravegnana
AmeriQua is pervaded by the cliches about Italy and the Italians
which are typical of many American films - mafia, spaghetti, tagliatelle, jealous boyfriends, American tourists robbed in Naples,
punkabbestias stealing bikes - but it is, however, in its own peculiar way, a tender portrait: the film in fact comes from the memories
of Robert Kennedy’s nephew, Bobby III, who lived in Bologna as a
University student for a year.
The soundtrack was composed by Lucio Dalla. The final scenes
show a close up of the two Towers, from which banknotes are falling down, in tune with the playful spirit of the film.
The idea of an everyday object falling from the medieval tower had
already been used in the film E allora Mambo!, where Stefano picks
up the pencil holding up Antonia’s hair which had fallen to the
ground from the top of the tower.
8. Pupi Avati
Via S. Vitale, 51 – birthplace
“Bologna is my home. It’s the house of my childhood, my adolescence,
and my youth. And it’s the house where everything was born…” In Il
papà di Giovanna (Giovanna’s Father - 2008), Pupi Avati choses via S.
Vitale 51 as the house of the main character Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando), his wife Delia (Francesca Neri) and his daughter Giovanna (Alba
Rohrwacher), thus paying homage to his birthplace. The film is set in
Bologna during the 1930s and 1940s and is a family drama which takes
place during fascism first, and during World War II then. However, it is
also, and above all, the story of a father-daughter relationship, which
is so emotionally intense that it overshadows the brutal reality of war.

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