Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
“Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma.”
2014•1h 30m•Released
Documentary
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Director
Francesco Barilli
Writer
Michele Guerra, Francesco Barilli
Languages
Italian
Studio
POLIVIDEO DI P. PESSINI E C.
Cast
Michele Guerra
Self / Narrator
Bernardo Bertolucci
Self
Vittorio Storaro
Self
Enrico Medioli
Self
Franco Nero
Self
Stefania Sandrelli
Self
Roberto Benigni
Self (archive footage)
Fabrizio Gifuni
Self
Sonia Bergamasco
Self
Francesco Barilli
Self
Lorenzo Baraldi
Self
Enrico Lucherini
Self
Francesco Rosi
Self (archive footage)
Fausto Fornari
Self
Mario Lanfranchi
Self
Production
Company
POLIVIDEO DI P. PESSINI E C.
Producer
Pierpaolo Pessini
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