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MY COUNTRY

IL MIO PAESE

By Daniele VICARI

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Documentary - Completed 2006

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 113 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniele VICARI
- Producer(s)
- Fabrizio GROSOLI (Vivo Film), Gregorio PAONESSA (Vivo Film), Marta DONZELLI (Vivo Film)
- Synopsis
- A documentary where the images of Ivens are a constant reference, a thematic and
  narrative suggestion, where the discovery of an industrial and post-industrial Italian
  landscape with great visual impact is grafted. The country is seen today as compared with
  forty five years ago, together with a picture of a unique historical moment and a page of great
  cinema.
  Between 1959 and 1960 one of the greatest documentary-makers in the history of
  cinema, Joris Ivens, realized – commissioned by Enrico Mattei president of Eni – a film with
  an emblematic title: Italy is Not a Poor Country. Through a long trip, starting from the North
  just reborn from the ruins of the second world conflict, to the South still rural, Ivens told the
  effort of the industrialization of a country on the eve of the economical boom.
  What has remained today of that dream?
  Between 2005 and 2006 Daniel Vicari travelled again throughout Italy in the opposite
  direction in order to tell the current situation marked by the national economical crisis and the
  consequent loss of international competitivity. During his trip – from the industrial Sicily of
  Gela and Termini Imerese, passing from Melfi, to the laboratories of Enea in Rome, where
  research on the alternative energies are carried out, to a city like Prato, with its complex
  issues of Chinese immigration, to Port Marghera –, Vicari describes a country which is in
  difficulty, that is changing its structures: together with its decline, the reconversion and the
  new transformation of Italy emerges.