Where? Far from home,from work and his boss, far from city traffic and his alarm clock, far from the monotony of his life... The farthest away possible. Travelling against time, visiting places of other centuries. How? Thanks to a magic whistle given him by "Fairy Sicura" the most nutty, thoughtless, happy fairy still to be seen around. A golden whistle which can catapult him back into prehistory, or in ancient Rome, in Medieval time, on a desert island, in Fairy tale land, in ancient Egypt, in the far West or in the future.With whom? He travels with Gastone, his boss'dog, tiny,naive and a little bit spoiled : after many adventures he will realize how much more valuable a friend is rather than a cream pie. Will he find it? Yes, but not in the past, not in other centuries, full of incredible and miserable adventures for him. Happiness was much closer,at hand's reach. He only had to think about it... Isnt that right, Mr Rossi?
WHO IS MISTER ROSSI
The first and most familiar character born from the sketches of Bruno Bozzetto in the 1960’s is Mister Rossi, a funny little man dressed in red who embodies the middle-class Italian in which the audience identifies with. Mister Rossi has starred in 7 animated shorts all sharing the beautiful sound-tracks composed by Franco Godi, also appreciated as musical pieces and made immediately enjoyable to non Italian speaking audiences through the lack of dialogue.
Throughout the 1970’s, 3 animated long feature films were made, this time all featuring a dialogue which translated and dubbed into several languages were distributed worldwide.
Co-produced by Wagner Hallig Film and RTSI, Mister Rossi long feature films are well known in Countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland where DVDs featuring German dialogue and extra Mister Rossi content, were released on their markets a few years ago.
Since the 1960’s, Mister Rossi has appeared and continues to appear in many different forms, from books to illustrations, from advertisements to gift-objects, and to satirical cartoons made by Bruno Bozzetto and published by the Corriere della Sera newspaper every Monday where Mister Rossi, as any other average Italian citizen, harshly laughs at the faults of the Italian society.
CREDITS
Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti
Art Direction Guido Manuli
Backgrounds Antonio Dall'Osso
Animation Edoardo Cavalli, Fabio Pacifico, Giorgio Valentini, Massimo Vitetta
Musics Franco Godi
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi, Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
