The lives of the characters in Silvio Soldini’s comedy, Il comandante e la cicogna (2011), intertwine across the streets and squares of Turin, primarily in piazza Castello, where Amanzio (Giuseppe Battiston) goes to a bookshop to read without buying; corso Vercelli, where Amanzio and his tenant Diana (Alba Rohrwacher) live; the porticoes of piazza Vittorio Veneto and piazza Maria Teresa, where the property targeted by the lawyer Malaffano (Luca Zingaretti) is located.
The statue of a thinking Garibaldi (voiced by Pierfrancesco Favino) is supposedly located in piazza Statuto. In reality, it doesn't exist. Giuseppe Garibaldi, astride his steed, watching passers-by cross the square while lamenting the degraded and vulgar state of his Italy, was created from papier-mâché, as were the other statues. The statues in piazza Bodoni also speak.
Locations included Grugliasco, Nichelino, San Mauro Torinese, and Venaria.
The disappearance of his son, Elia (Luca Dirodi), takes Leo (Valerio Mastandrea) to Switzerland; these scenes were filmed in Soussun in the Val d’Ayas, in the mountains of the Valle d’Aosta.
The lives of the characters in Silvio Soldini’s comedy, Il comandante e la cicogna (2011), intertwine across the streets and squares of Turin, primarily in piazza Castello, where Amanzio (Giuseppe Battiston) goes to a bookshop to read without buying; corso Vercelli, where Amanzio and his tenant Diana (Alba Rohrwacher) live; the porticoes of piazza Vittorio Veneto and piazza Maria Teresa, where the property targeted by the lawyer Malaffano (Luca Zingaretti) is located.
The statue of a thinking Garibaldi (voiced by Pierfrancesco Favino) is supposedly located in piazza Statuto. In reality, it doesn't exist. Giuseppe Garibaldi, astride his steed, watching passers-by cross the square while lamenting the degraded and vulgar state of his Italy, was created from papier-mâché, as were the other statues. The statues in piazza Bodoni also speak.
Locations included Grugliasco, Nichelino, San Mauro Torinese, and Venaria.
The disappearance of his son, Elia (Luca Dirodi), takes Leo (Valerio Mastandrea) to Switzerland; these scenes were filmed in Soussun in the Val d’Ayas, in the mountains of the Valle d’Aosta.
Scattered throughout squares and gardens, statues watch the city awake every morning. Once close up, having climbed to their side, you can hear them thinking or even speaking. From his steed in the centre of a large square, Giuseppe Garibaldi is tormented by the present state of his country, increasingly decadent and vulgar. Down below him, Leo, a plumber with two children to raise, moves through the traffic and crowds, as does Diana, a penniless young artist full of ideas. They meet in the office of a powerful, deceitful lawyer, Malaffano, where she is frescoing the waiting room wall for a pittance and he has come seeking help for his daughter, unwittingly the star of an erotic video on the internet. From complete strangers, Diana and Leo will become a couple in love.
