Molecole

Category

Documentaries

International title

Country of production

Italy

Year

2020

Synopsis

Some things are very difficult for a father to share with his son and the latter can only start to understand them when he becomes a father. In February-April this year, Andrea Segre, who has been living in Rome for years, was blocked by the lockdown in Venice, the city of his father Ulderico. He was working there on two theatre and cinema projects on the city?s great blights: tourism and high water. While he was filming the city was frozen and emptied before his very eyes, restoring it to nature and its history, and in some ways to him as well. He collected visual notes and spent that period in his family home where he delved into the past. Personal archives in Super8 by the director?s father and the real protagonist of the film alternate with meetings with Venetian inhabitants, who talk about the relationship between the city and water whilst experiencing the unexpected arrival of the great void that has invaded Venice and a large part of the world.

Subject

Andrea Segre

Direction

Andrea Segre

Script

Andrea Segre

Photography

Matteo Calore, Andrea Segre

Scenography

Costumes

Original music

Teho Teardo

Editing

Chiara Russo

Cast

Ulderico Segre, Giuliano Segre, Uberto Segre, Anna Pagliero, Mauro Stoppa, Boris Borella, Luigi Divari, Elena Almansi, Maurizio Calligaro, Giulia Tagliapietra Alberto Spizzamiglio Anna Campagnari Marino Almansi, Patrizia Zanella, Alexandra Ioana-Drobota, Marta Bortolozzo, Samanta Coviç, Dafni Segre Archontoula Skourtanioti

Producer

Andrea Segre, Giulia Campagna, Valentino Girardi, Enrico Bufalini

Production

ZaLab Film, Rai Cinema, Vulcano, Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Distributor

Lucky Red
ZaLab