original title:
Pastrone!
directed by:
cast:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
cinematography:
editing:
music:
production:
Clean Film, Lab 80 film, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2019
film run:
90'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (17/10/2019)
festivals & awards:
The fortuitous finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director.
Following the discoveries of unpublished materials and objects mysteriously resurfaced from the past, a strange and amazing new version of the story comes to the light. After having dominated the early phases of Cinema and rewritten its rules for over a decade, Giovanni Pastrone abandons his creature to become a self-taught healer, devoting the rest of his life to Man's antagonistic struggle against Death.