THE OTHER FILMS (credits and synopsis)
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THE SEVENTH DAY HE REST |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1963 Lenght - 10' Film - 35mm, black and white - Live action - |
The film studies, in a humorous vein, a sunday spent skiing, underlining the paradoxical and amusig situation. |
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMOKING
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Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1971 Lenght - 2' Film - 35mm, colour - Live action mixed to animation - no dialogue Subject - Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti Screenplay - Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti Cast - Maurizio Nichetti, Osvaldo Salvi Edition - Giancarlo Rossi |
An animation short partly "Live" and partly in animated cartoons, made with the aim of dissuading from the vice of smoking. The film, of humouristic character, shows through some amusing situations addressed to persons of different types and different age, the harmfullness of smoke. |
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THE HOUSEHOLD DRUG
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Direction-
Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1972 Lenght - 12' Film - 35mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue Subject - Bruno Bozzetto, Maurizio Nichetti Screenplay - Bruno Bozzetto, Maurizio Nichetti Cast - Silvia Ferluca, Maurizio Nichetti, Marino Camparano Picture - Modesto Rizzolo Edition - Giancarlo Rossi |
Television addiction and its household problems in a great piece of slapstick, with loads of funny action, sound effects and music from Tv-movies. |
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THE CABIN
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Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto |
A young amateur photographer, astonished by visions of a gorgeous girl coming out of a beach hut and disappearing into the sea, finally captures the girl's attention. Her reaction brings the film to an unexpected and fascinating end. |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto, Francesco Finali Year of Production - 1979 Lenght - 10' Film - 16mm, colour - Live action Subject - Bruno Bozzetto Cast - Dario Cerea, Valeria Ongaro, Sandro Rebussi Picture - Bruno Bozzetto Edition - Giancarlo Rossi Music - Repertory |
A black humour piece dealing with man's growing incompatibility with the world around him. Here, a surprise visit ends in a nightmare when the house revolts against its human guest. |
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AUTOMATIC YELLOW |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1980 Lenght - 20' Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue Subject and Screenplay - Bruno Bozzetto Cast - Dario Cerea Picture - Bruno Bozzetto Edition - Giancarlo Rossi |
Like every day, a chemical goes to the factory where he works,but by parking his car he bunches into a small goods-lift and damages his car. His instinctual reaction of anger against the goods-lift causes a series of mysterious chain events that gives the chemical troubles until when he finds himself face to face with this devilish machine that just wanted one thing from him : to be cleaned of that footprint left on its side by that man, when he kicked it so powerfully. |
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HOW
CAN THEY MAKE THEM SO BEAUTIFUL?
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Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1980 Lenght - 60' (4 episodes of 15' each) Film - 16mm, colour - Live action Picture - Mario Battistoni, Strinschi Edition - Ugo Micheli, Giancarlo Rossi |
A popular film about how animated cartoons are made, all told in the form of a personal event. |
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DETECTIVE SAM BLACK |
Direction
- Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti Year of Production - 1980 Lenght - 16' Film - 35mm, colour - Live action mixed to animation Picture - Mario Battistoni, Ugo Magni Edition - Giancarlo Rossi Production - Bruno Bozzetto |
An elderly lady goes to detective Sam Black in order to find someone who apparently is a lost close relative. The detective begins a careful telephone search that leads him to comb in vain the whole city. At the end of the film, the elderly lady reappears satisfied : The canary that she had lost spontaneously came back. |
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SPORTING |
Direction
e Soggetto - Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1982 Lenght - 24' Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue Screenplay - Bruno Bozzetto, Giorgio Valentini Picture - Bruno Bozzetto e Francesco Finali Edition - Ugo Micheli, Giancarlo Rossi Musics - Franco Godi |
Inside a Sporting Club we follow the plot of some character who practise several sports activities during the day's course: tennis, swimming, bowls, archery, etc... Of course their activities are decked with humorous gags. An unexpected shower of rain puts everybody to flight and brings all the activities to an end. |
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MILANO ZERO |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1983 Lenght - 6' Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - Collaboration - Dario Cerea, Alfredo Cannatello, Francesco Finali, Quelli del Bunker Edition - Giancarlo Rossi, Ugo Micheli |
Some of the main problems that afflict Milan, and not only Milan, seen through the eyes of a dog. The situation are represented above all in humorous vein, without losing sight of the real problem of the urban degrade. The film has been made for Italia Nostra. |
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NEL CENTRO DEL MIRINO |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1983 Lenght - 15' Film - 16mm, colore - Dal vero - senza dialogo Edizione - Giancarlo Rossi, Ugo Micheli |
It brings into relief the evils which afflict Sardegna nowadays, such as building speculations, pollution, etc... Following 4 mysterious guys "shifts", intent upon shooting similar evils with symbolical precision-rifles. |
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SKI LOVE |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1991 Lenght - 12' 35" Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue Production director - Dario Cerea Make-up - Manuela Pederzolli Cast - Vanessa Rizzi, Roberto Frattini Picture - Giuseppe Cella Edition - Ugo Micheli Music and Sound effects - Roberto Frattini and Garden Studio |
A girl spends a short holiday at the refuge "Livrio" to practise summer-skiing but she is persecuted by a pair of skies which had fallen in love with her. |
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BAD MANNERS IN THE MOUNTAINS |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1993 Lenght - 30'' Film - 16mm, colour - Live action |
About the wrong conduct in the mountains. |
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THEATRE |
Direction
- Bruno Bozzetto Year of Production - 1999 Lenght - 10' Film - colour - Live action - Cast - Pietro Ghislandi |
Humouristic situations in which a character goes to the theatre believing instead to be going to the striptease, yet he will find himself at a classical music concert. |
