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Rita Rognoni and Rai Cinema
present
a Pupkin Production and Ibc Movie with Rai Cinema
FIORE
a film by
Claudio Giovannesi
release 25th May (Rome and Milan) and 1st June in the rest of Italy
Length 109 minutes
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ABSTRACT
Juvenile prison. Daphne, imprisoned for robbery, falls in love with another young
robber, Josh. Male and female inmates can't meet in the prison though, and love is
forbidden: the relationship between Daphne and Josh is built on glances from one
cell to the other, short conversations through the bars, and secret letters. Prison is
no longer just the loss of freedom; it's become the lack of love as well.
FIORE is the story of a young girl's desire for love, and the strength of a feeling that
breaks every law.
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CAST
DAPHNE SCOCCIA Daphne Bonori
JOSCIUA ALGERI Josh
LAURA VASILIU Stefania
ANIELLO ARENA Gessica's dad
GESSICA GIULIANIELLI Gessica Di Nardo
KLEA MARKU Irene Mancini
FRANCESCA RISO Brenda Russo
and with VALERIO MASTANDREA as Ascanio Bonori
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CREW
Director CLAUDIO GIOVANNESI
Story CLAUDIO GIOVANNESI and FILIPPO GRAVINO
Screenplay CLAUDIO GIOVANNESI, FILIPPO GRAVINO and ANTONELLA LATTANZI
Director of photography DANIELE CIPRÍ
Set design DANIELE FRABETTI
Costumes OLIVIA BELLINI
Editing GIUSEPPE TREPICCIONE
Sound engineer ANGELO BONANNI
Music CLAUDIO GIOVANNESI and ANDREA MOSCIANESE, produced and edited by Ala Bianca Group Srl
Executive producer FRANCESCO TATÓ
Produced by RITA ROGNONI and BEPPE CASCHETTO
a PUPKIN PRODUCTION and IBC MOVIE with RAI CINEMA
Associate producers VALERIO MASTANDREA and GIANNI ZANASI
Film recognised as being of national cultural interest, obtaining the economic support of the Ministry for
Cultural Assets and Activities (MIBACT)
In association with Forte Srl, Cinefinance Italia Srl, Ats Srl (in accordance with tax credit regulations)
In collaboration with Eliofilm Caterina Carpinella
Italian distribution by BIM
Rai Com foreign sales - Cristina Cavaliere, mobile: +39 3334481036, e-mail: [email protected]
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DIRECTOR'S NOTES
The documentation
The making of Fiore, from writing through to filming, was all based on
documentation: on a meeting with reality and then its transformation into drama
and a story using images, with the aim of creating a film that's as realistic and
believable as possible.
That was why the scriptwriters and I spent four months (from January to May
2014) as voluntary teachers at the Istituto Penale per i Minori in Casal del Marmo,
which is Rome's juvenile prison.
We drew the kids, both boys and girls, into a series of laboratories focusing on
video and cinema language so that we could write the script inside the prison and
base it on their experiences and their real personal stories.
The topic
Males and females aren't allowed to meet inside the prison and there are no
shared activities but, in spite of the detention and the total ban on meeting, they
still manage to establish relationships: love stories based on letters, glances thrown
from one cell to the other, and short conversations away from the watchful eye of
the prison police.
Despite the prison setting of the film, what really stirred us wasn't the moral story
about crime and punishment, but the feelings of those kids, forced into detention:
the film is told entirely from the viewpoint of the 17-year old protagonist, who's
simultaneously living the experience of prison and that of her first love.
Is it possible to live your teenage years in a prison context? Hold on to the charm
and innocence of that age, despite being guilty in the eyes of the law? This
contradiction was the starting point for the project - the paradox of two
adolescents living the power of their first love in a place where love is forbidden.
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Filming
The cast of adolescent inmates is made up of non-professional actors, most of
them former inmates or on probation, with some who we met in the prison
laboratories (with the Department of Juvenile Justice giving its permission for them
to be involved in the film).
Even the roles of prison police assistants are played mainly by real prison officers.
The search for the right location was a hard one: even though the collaboration
began with the laboratories at Rome's juvenile prison, we were only able to shoot a
few scenes there because the night and day filming schedules of the crew clashed
with the prison routine. Most of the film was shot in the juvenile prison of the city
of l'Aquila, a prison without detainees as they were all transferred to other
institutions after the earthquake; it was subsequently renovated but has never
been used since.
The set design made the prison - which was new but unused - seem older, and we
brought in around 40 inmates along with a few prison officers. The prison is also a
multicultural, multiethnic place: the male and female detainees come from
different parts of Italy, and most of them are of north African, Slav and Romani
origin.
The presence of real prison officers meant we were able to recreate the
complicated system of rules and bans that punctuate the day and night: the closure
in the cell, the opening of the cells and the closure in the prison wing, the
recreation time, the solitary isolation.
In the film Fiore, the prison isn't just a temporary lack of freedom for the teenagers
- it's a lack of love. The moral is no longer that of the law; it's an anarchic moral of
feelings. And the prison rules and prison officers' bans are the obstacles to be
overcome in order to live out the feelings of your adolescence.
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CLAUDIO GIOVANNESI (director)
Director, scriptwriter and musician born in Rome in 1978.
In 2009 he directed his first feature film, La casa sulle nuvole (Jury Special Award Brussels Film Festival 2009), and the documentary Fratelli d’Italia (Jury Special
Award - International Rome Film Festival, 2009; nominated for the Nastri d’Argento
as Best Documentary).
In 2012 he directed his second feature film, Alì ha gli occhi azzurri, which won the
Jury Special Award and the Award for best first and second work at the
International Rome Film Festival, the Prix Jean Carmet at the Angers Film Festival
2013, was nominated for the Nastri d’Argento as Best Film, and was presented at
the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was distributed in Italy, France and Spain.
His last documentary, Wolf, won the Jury Special Award at the 31st Torino Film
Festival, and was nominated for the Nastri d’Argento as Best Documentary.
In 2014 he contributed to the collective film 9 x 10 Novanta, presented at the 71st
Venice International Film Festival.
In 2015 he directed episodes 7 and 8 of the TV series Gomorra 2.
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VALERIO MASTANDREA (Ascanio Bonori)
ACTOR
Cinema
2015
“FIORE”
2015
“PERFETTI SCONOSCIUTI”
(Paolo Genovese)
2015
“FAI BEI SOGNI”
(Marco Bellocchio)
2014
“LA FELICITÀ È UN SISTEMA COMPLESSO”
(Gianni Zanasi)
2014
“OGNI MALEDETTO NATALE”
2013
“THE FACE OF AN ANGEL”
2013
“CASERTA PALACE DREAM”
2013
“LA SEDIA DELLA FELICITÀ”
2013
“LA MIA CLASSE”
2013
“VIVA LA LIBERTÀ”
(Roberto Andò)
2012
“GLI EQUILIBRISTI”
(Ivano De Matteo)
2011
“I PADRONI DI CASA”
2011
“IL COMANDANTE E LA CICOGNA”
2011
“ROMANZO DI UNA STRAGE”
2010
“RUGGINE”
2010
“COSE DELL’ALTRO MONDO”
2010
“MAMMA ESCORT”
2009
“LA PRIMA COSA BELLA”
(Paolo Virzì)
2008
“NINE”
(Rob Marshall)
2008
“GIULIA NON ESCE LA SERA”
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(Claudio Giovannesi)
(G. Ciarrapico, M. Torre, L. Vendruscolo)
(Michael Winterbottom)
(James Mc Teigue)
(Carlo Mazzacurati)
(Daniele Gaglianone)
(Edoardo Gabbriellini)
(Silvio Soldini)
(Marco Tullio Giordana)
(Daniele Gaglianone)
(Francesco Patierno)
(Massimiliano Bruno)
(Umberto Piccioni)
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2007
“UN GIORNO PERFETTO”
2007
“TUTTA LA VITA DAVANTI”
2006
“NON PENSARCI”
2006
“LAST MINUTE MAROCCO”
2006
“NOTTURNO BUS”
2005
“N”
2005
“IL CAIMANO”
2004
“L’ORIZZONTE DEGLI EVENTI”
2003
“NESSUN MESSAGGIO IN SEGRETERIA”
2003
“LAVORARE CON LENTEZZA”
(Guido Chiesa)
2003
“AMATEMI”
(Renato de Maria)
2003
“GENTE DI ROMA”
2003
“IL SIERO DELLA VANITÀ”
2001
“VELOCITÀ MASSIMA”
2001
“LA FURIA”
2001
“ULTIMO STADIO”
2001
“NID DE GUEPES”
2000
“LA LUCE NEGLI OCCHI”
(Andrea Porporati)
1999
“DOMANI”
(Francesca Archibugi)
1999
“LA CARBONARA”
1998
“BARBARA”
1997
“L'ODORE DELLA NOTTE”
(Claudio Caligari)
1997
“ABBIAMO SOLO FATTO L'AMORE”
(Fulvio Ottaviano)
1997
“VIOLA BACIA TUTTI”
1997
“IN BARCA A VELA CONTROMANO”
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(Ferzan Ozpetek)
(Paolo Virzì)
(Gianni Zanasi)
(Francesco Falaschi)
(Davide Marengo)
(Paolo Virzì)
(Nanni Moretti)
(Daniele Vicari)
(Miniero and Genovese)
(Ettore Scola)
(Alex Infascelli)
(Daniele Vicari)
(Daniele Vicari)
(Ivano De Matteo)
(Florent Siri)
(Luigi Magni)
(Angelo Orlando)
(Giovanni Veronesi)
(Stefano Reali)
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1996
“TUTTI GIÙ PER TERRA”
(Davide Ferrario)
1996
“LA CLASSE NON È ACQUA”
1996
“DA COSA NASCE COSA”
1996
“UN INVERNO FREDDO FREDDO”
(Roberto Cimpanelli)
1995
“BRUNO ASPETTA IN MACCHINA”
(Duccio Camerini)
1995
“CRESCERANNO I CARCIOFI A MIMONGO”
1995
“MIRKO E CATERINA”
1995
“PALERMO MILANO SOLO ANDATA”
1994
“L'ANNO PROSSIMO VADO A LETTO ALLE DIECI”
1994
“DIARIO DI UNO STUPRATORE”
(Giacomo Battiato)
1994
“DOVE NASCE LA NOTIZIA”
(Umberto Marino)
1994
“LADRI DI CINEMA”
(Cecilia Calvi)
(Andrea Manni)
(Fulvio Ottaviano)
(Cecilia Calvi)
(Claudio Fragasso)
(Angelo Orlando)
(Piero Natoli)
Television
2009
“I NARDINI”
(Gianni Zanasi and Lucio Pellegrini)
2006
“BUTTAFUORI”
2004
“CEFALONIA”
2004
“LADRI MA NON TROPPO”
2003
“GLI INSOLITI IGNOTI”
(Antonello Grimaldi)
2002
“IL GIARDINIERE”
(Antonello Grimaldi)
(Giacomo Ciarrapico)
(Riccardo Milani)
(Antonello Grimaldi)
Theatre
2012/13 “QUI E ORA!”
2004/05 “MIGLIORE”
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(Mattia Torre)
(Mattia Torre)
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2002
“BARBARA”
(Angelo Orlando)
1998
“RUGANTINO”
1996
“CASAMATTA VENDESI”
(Angelo Orlando)
1996
“FOREVER BLUES”
(Maurizio Panici)
1996
“I PAPPAGALLI”
1995
“MESSICO E NUVOLE”
1995
“LA LUNA E L'ASTEROIDE”
1994
“SOTTERRANEO”
(Franco Bertini)
1994
“AMICI”
(Maurizio Panici)
(Pietro Garinei)
(Patrick Rossi Castaldi)
(Bruno Montefusco)
(Luciano Curreli)
SCRIPTWRITER
2013
“LA PROFEZIA DELL’ARMADILLO” (Zerocalcare)
PRODUCER
2015
“NON ESSERE CATTIVO” (directed by Claudio Caligari)
AWARDS
2013 - DAVID DI DONATELLO - winner for Best Actor for “Gli Equilibristi” (Ivano De Matteo)
2013 - DAVID DI DONATELLO - winner for Best Supporting Actor for “Viva la libertà” (Roberto
Andò)
2010 - DAVID DI DONATELLO - winner for Best Actor for “La prima cosa bella” (Paolo Virzì)
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