Vito Zagarrio, director
The Department of French and Italian presents
the Italian film
Three Days of Anarchy
Tre giorni d'anarchia
with introduction by the director
Vito Zagarrio
Friday, April 18, 2008
6:00 pm
Wylie Hall 015
Shown in Italian with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. Followed by Q & A with the director and refreshments.
THE FILM
Plot summary: Sicily, July 1943. A little town is shocked by the news that American troops have landed in Italy. Fascism is over, but the Americans have not yet arrived here. For 3 days, the population lives a sort of Utopia, in the absence of the authority. The protagonist, Giuseppe, is a young intellectual undecided about what to do both in politics and love. He’s pulled by different groups (landlords and farmers, communists and catholics, the mafia and people nostalgic for Mussolini) and by two opposite kinds of women: the seductive Anna and the passionate Pina.
Recognition: Three Days of Anarchy received awards for best film and for its actors at the Ajaccio festival, for best direction at Santa Marinella, was nominated for the Grand Prix at Tokyo, and has been shown at festivals in Miami, San Francisco, Villerupt, Würzburg, Mar del Plata, and Malta.
THE DIRECTOR
Vito Zagarrio is an accomplished film director and film scholar. He is a professor at the University of Rome 3 and teaches for American University programs in Italy (NYU in Florence, IES in Rome). He is the author of several books on both Italian and American cinema. He is currently a visiting professor at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Professor Zagarrio’s recent publications include “Primato”. Arte, cultura, cinema del fascismo attraverso una rivista esemplare (Roma, Edizioni stortia e letteratura, 2007); Overlooking Kubrick (Rome, Dino Audino, 2006); John Waters (Milano, Il castoro, 2005); Cinema e Fascismo. Film, modelli, immaginari (Venice, Marsilio, 2004); and L’anello mancante. Teoria e storia dei rapporti tra cinema e televisione, (Torino, Lindau, 2004).
He has directed three feature films: La donna della luna -Young Distance (1988), Bonus Malus (2003), and Tre giorni d'anarchia - Three Days of Anarchy (2006), as well as several documentaries and TV shorts. In 1992 he received a David Award for the first HDTV film with the Eureka standard, Un bel di’ vedremo. He has founded Italian film festivals in Rome and Ragusa (Sicily), and is one of the main organizers of the Pesaro film festival.
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