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AN AWARD FOR MISTER ROSSI (1960)
Mister
Rossi develops a passion for movie making, and inadvertently makes
an award-winning film. Mister Rossi, all house and family, happens
one day to see a videocamera in a shop of photografic articles,
and won by a sudden passion for the cinema world, he decides buying
it. From that moment on, his life obviously changes in a radical
way : everything around him becomes "subject" to be filmed.
Any place is suitable : the mountains, the countryside, and logically
the city itself. He even manages to smash down half a house, breaking
the furniture and all the rest, to set up his own little theatre.
After all this work, Mr Rossi finally edits the film,puts the sound
to it and presents his modest film at a festival where... it gets
refused. Taken by anger, he grabs the film, ruins it, cuts it, scratches
it and stains it, and this new "film", chancely viewed
at the Festival, wins an Oscar.
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year of Production 1960
Genre Disegni animati
Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation
Sergio Chesani
Background Giancarlo Cereda
Music Pier Emilio Bassi
Shooting
Luciano Marzetti
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 MISTER
ROSSI GOES SKIING (1963)
Mr
Rossi decides to spend his weekend in the mountains. He gets up
early and, after a short trip, arrives to his destination and starts
his fantastic ski adventures. He has to queue up with a lot of people
at the ski-lift but this is only the first of a series of setbacks
wich he experiences during his "holidays". Also the sun
appears to be teasing him, coming out and going away very quickly,
warming him when he is heavily dressed and failing to do so when
he is lightly dressed. We then see his spectacular headlong falls,
evolutions and crazy flights. Jumping off the ski board he flies
as a bomb, through a window, directly into his Hotel room. The film
ends showing Mr Rossi going home, after having burnt all of his
skiing equipment.
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1963
Genre
Disegni animati
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
Bruno Bozzetto
Animation
Guido Manuli
Background
Giancarlo Cereda
Music
Enzo Jannacci, Paolo Tomelleri
Shooting
Luciano Marzetti
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 MISTER
ROSSI ON THE BEACH (1964)
Mr
Rossi in the hot summer city weather takes a foot-bath and admires
the bathing posters with which he covered the walls of his room,
awaiting to begin his "own" holidays at the sea shore.
After a stormy departure, caused by the wall of people found at
the station. Mr Rossi arrives at his destination and tries at once
to find a place in the sun on the crowded beach. When he finds it,
he begins to act as a "wanted" man, trying to draw the
girl's attention. His adventures turn out to be "misadventures"
and culminate with his ending up in his hotel room... persecuted
by a mosquito which prevents his sleep.
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1964
Genre
Disegni animati
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
Bruno Bozzetto
Animation
Guido Manuli, Franco Martelli
Sound Vittorio Pazzaglia Background
Giancarlo Cereda
Music
Enzo Jannacci, Paolo Tomelleri
Shooting
Luciano Marzetti, Roberto Scarpa
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 MISTER
ROSSI BUYS A CAR (1966)
Mr Rossi comes
out of his office, located in a skyscraper, and suddenly remarks
that everybody, from the man washing the windows-panes down to the
policeman and newsman, owns a car. He suddenly develops an inferiority
complex and upon seeing a man carrying an advertising poster and
playing a pipe as a snaker-charmer, follows him to a driving-school
where,in a short period of time and after spending substantial sums,
he obtains a driver's license. Thereafter, upon signing a thousand
promissory notes we then see our Mr Rossi go through the adventures
of the new motorist, face the problem of traffic road signs and
circulation laws. Several accidents befall him. He has many troubles
with the engine. The film ends showing Mr Rossi in a hospital where,
after another accident, he is obliged to repair his own damages!
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1966
Genre
Disegni animati
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
Bruno Bozzetto, Sergio Crivellaro
Animation
Guido Manuli, Franco Martelli
Art DIrector Giovanni Mulazzani Background
Giovanni
Mulazzani, Giancarlo
Cereda
Music
Giampiero Boneschi
Shooting
Luciano Marzetti, Roberto Scarpa
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 MISTER
ROSSI AT CAMPING (1970)
Mr Rossi is
at present up against the problems of camping. Attracted by the
perspective of a rural life and of a return to nature, far from
noises and inconveniences of the city, he throws himself into this
new experience. Unfortunately he notices soon that the "civilization
noises" arrived also to the most solitary and lonely places.
Radios, motor-scooters, televisions, electric saws and other noisy
inventions prevent his resting and oblige him to take shelter in
more and more lonely places, always more difficult to be reached.
Just in one of these places, at the base of a dyke, Mr Rossi finds
the quietness and the peace he was looking for. But also the most
beautiful dreams stop at dawn, when, sometimes, also dykes are partially
emptied...
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1970
Genre
Disegni animati
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto,
Guido Manuli
Animation
Guido Manuli, Franco Martelli, Massimo Vitetta
Background
Giancarlo Cereda Music
Franco
Godi
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
Shooting
Luciano Marzetti, Aristide Bellani Other
Collaborators Annalisa Paulon, Flora Sperotto, Maurizia Banfi
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 MISTER
ROSSI AT PHOTO SAFARI (1971)
Mr
Rossi on the pretext of a photo safari leaves to the conquest of
Africa : of that primitive and natural Africa described to him by
the agent of a travel bureau. Along with his camera he leaves sure
to have the possibility to immortalize a free and primitive world
not yet corrupted by a conditioning civilization. But after his
arrival he finds a very different reality. Obliged, by a travel
programmed in every detail, to continuous tiring movings, Mr Rossi
in the center of a standardized and electronic Africa, among several
mishaps, tries to photograph some wild beasts but they are always
killed under his eyes an instant before his photo, by a crowd of
blood-thirsty hunters.
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1971
Genre
Disegni animati-senza dialogo
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Animation
Guido Manuli, Roberto Vitali
Editing
Giancarlo Rossi Background
Giancarlo Cereda
Shooting
Ugo Magni
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 MISTER
ROSSI IN VENICE (1974)
Mister
Rossi this time finds himself in Venice, against his will. His adventures
take place in an always more polluted lagoon, under rotten staggering
buildings, aboard overcrowded and dangerous steamboats. The Venice
of the postcards is only a remote memory. Certainly not sproned
by a social duty, but in order to catch the pretty tourist's attention,
Rossi too tries to fight against the disease that is destroying
Venice. But his battle is similar to Don Quixote's fight against
the windmills. As a matter of fact, in spite of his good will, abundantly
seasoned with the typical madness of the character, he will be defeated.
He had indeed engaged a battle with a too big enemy : pollution.
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CREDITS
Production
Bruno Bozzetto Film
Year
of Production 1974
Genre
Disegni animati-senza dialogo
Direction
Bruno Bozzetto
Script
Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Animation Giorgio Valentini
Editing
Giancarlo Rossi Background
Giancarlo Cereda
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi, Ugo Magni
Music Franco Godi
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