original title:
Lucus a Lucendo. A proposito di Carlo Levi
directed by:
cast:
Stefano Levi della Torre, Carlo Ginzburg, Vincenzo D’Elia, Filomena Poidomani, Alessandra Lancellotti
cinematography:
editing:
music:
Zende Music Ensemble, feat. Marcello Picchioni, Luca Romeo, Laura Loriga
producer:
production:
Caucaso Factory, Luce Cinecittà, Domus Films, supported by Ministero della Cultura, in cooperation with Fondo Etico BCC Basilicata, Comune di Aliano, with the support of Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Film Commission Torino Piemonte
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy
year:
2019
film run:
78'
format:
colour & b/w
release date:
22/09/2021
festivals & awards:
With the expression “Lucus a non lucendo” (wood of non-light), Carlo Levi describes the landscape known during his confinement in Basilicata. After two generations, Stefano Levi Della Torre embarks on a journey to the places of Carlo’s public life. The traveling companions are Carlo Ginzburg and Alessandra Lancellotti, who embodies a new disciple, a role that Stefano had played with Carlo. The documentary is a dialectical comparison that alternates the pictorial landscape with the memorial one, to become a separate work in which one of the masterpieces of Italian anthropology, Christ Stopped at Eboli, finds a new cinematographic translation.