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THE STRESSFUL ART OF LIVING

IL MESTIERE DI VIVERE

By Giovanna GAGLIARDO

CINECITTÀ SPA - as SALES All rights

Documentary - Post-Production 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Giovanna GAGLIARDO
- Writer(s)
- Giovanna GAGLIARDO
- Producer(s)
- Enrico BUFALINI (Cinecittà)
- Synopsis
- The documentary begins at the end: the weekend of 26/27 August 1950, the last, hectic days of Pavese’s life. He wanders around the deserted city, looking for friends he cannot find, writing, telephoning people. On the Sunday evening, in a hotel near the station in Turin, he takes his own life.
  This epilogue provides the premise to recount another story. The story of a man, a writer and an intellectual who in his short life managed to invent, and above all create, a new literary and cultural world that would mark the second half of the 20th century in Italy and give it an identity.
  All this, brought to life through a selection of archive material, numerous interviews and, above all, visual and musical atmospheres recreated in traditionally “Pavesian” locations that provide a fantastical backdrop to his texts, letters, poems and diaries.