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Giovanna, Stories of a Voice

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Giovanna, Stories of a Voice (Giovanna, storie di una voce)

Giovanna, Stories of a Voice (Giovanna, storie di una voce)

original title:

Giovanna, storie di una voce

directed by:

Chiara Ronchini

cast:

Giovanna Salviucci Marini, Flaviana Rossi, Patrizia Rotonda, Michele Manca

cinematography:

Filippo Genovese

editing:

Luca Onorati, Chiara Ronchini

production:

Luce Cinecittà, A_Lab, AAMOD Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, with the support of Sardegna Film Commission Foundation

distribution:

Luce Cinecittà [Italy]

country:

Italy

year:

2021

film run:

90'

format:

colour & b/w

release date:

20/04/2022

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Giovanna Marini has been recounting history and stories with music her whole life.
Since 1958, she has been recording and preserving folk songs, composing ballads, music for film, theater and opera. A surprising voice, out-the-box and unconventional, unremitting, for 60 years she has traversed places, struggles and movements throughout Italy with her guitar in her arms.
A documentary about and featuring Giovanna Marini, conceived as a film of reflection on the use of the voice, a vehicle for seeking and acting on reality.
Through the narration of crucial points in our collective history sung by Giovanna across her long career, we interrogate the memory and the soul of an entire country shared in the present beyond official history.