Walter Veltroni’s Quando, based on his book of the same title, focusses on the passing of time, especially when – for reasons beyond our control – we are forced to miss a part. This is what happens to Giovanni who is hit on the head by a flagpole during a moment of collective mourning for Enrico Berlinguer at San Giovanni (Rome) in summer 1984 and goes into a coma. His comatose state lasts for 31 years and, on reawakening in 2015, the world he once knew has vanished: the Italian Communist Party no longer exists and neither does the Democrat-Christian Party, Berlusconi has been premier, the Berlin Wall has fallen, the USSR has disintegrated, the lira has been replaced by the euro … what has become of his parents, of the girl he loved, of his friends of that time? Like a fifty-year old child, Giovanni (Neri Marcorè) has to learn how to move in this new dimension, all the while accepting the loss of old ties and discovering new ones.
By his side are Giulia (Valeria Solarino), a tormented young nun who has taken care of him during the most recent years of his coma and Leo (Fabrizio Ciavoni), a troubled boy who suffers from selective mutism.
Thanks to them, Giovanni is not only able to recover his physical functions but also to manage to understand his new existence and tackle the memories of his past which returns in the guise of Francesca, the daughter from his previous life.
Rome, with the Colosseum, symbol of its thousands of years, is a natural setting for Giovanni to live out his story as history passes him by. In the Domus Aurea, whose entrance is in the park of Colle Oppio, Giovanni has an encounter with the daughter he has never known that is both clarifying and liberating.
At the archaeological park of Vulci, in the province of Viterbo, particularly near lake Pellicone, Giovanni finds a piece of his past.
Other locations include Hospital Carlo Forlanini, Antonello Colonna Resort in Labico and Residenza San Berbardo in EUR.
Walter Veltroni’s Quando, based on his book of the same title, focusses on the passing of time, especially when – for reasons beyond our control – we are forced to miss a part. This is what happens to Giovanni who is hit on the head by a flagpole during a moment of collective mourning for Enrico Berlinguer at San Giovanni (Rome) in summer 1984 and goes into a coma. His comatose state lasts for 31 years and, on reawakening in 2015, the world he once knew has vanished: the Italian Communist Party no longer exists and neither does the Democrat-Christian Party, Berlusconi has been premier, the Berlin Wall has fallen, the USSR has disintegrated, the lira has been replaced by the euro … what has become of his parents, of the girl he loved, of his friends of that time? Like a fifty-year old child, Giovanni (Neri Marcorè) has to learn how to move in this new dimension, all the while accepting the loss of old ties and discovering new ones.
By his side are Giulia (Valeria Solarino), a tormented young nun who has taken care of him during the most recent years of his coma and Leo (Fabrizio Ciavoni), a troubled boy who suffers from selective mutism.
Thanks to them, Giovanni is not only able to recover his physical functions but also to manage to understand his new existence and tackle the memories of his past which returns in the guise of Francesca, the daughter from his previous life.
Rome, with the Colosseum, symbol of its thousands of years, is a natural setting for Giovanni to live out his story as history passes him by. In the Domus Aurea, whose entrance is in the park of Colle Oppio, Giovanni has an encounter with the daughter he has never known that is both clarifying and liberating.
At the archaeological park of Vulci, in the province of Viterbo, particularly near lake Pellicone, Giovanni finds a piece of his past.
Other locations include Hospital Carlo Forlanini, Antonello Colonna Resort in Labico and Residenza San Berbardo in EUR.
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Olivia Corsini, Neri Marcorè
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Neri Marcorè – Lake Pellicone
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Luca Vannuccini, Carlotta Gamba
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Carlotta Gamba, Luca Vannuccini
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Olivia Corsini, Neri Marcorè
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Neri Marcorè, Massimiliano Bruno
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Fabrizio Ciavoni, Valeria Solarino
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Neri Marcorè, Fabrizio Ciavoni
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Valeria Solarino, Neri Marcorè
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Neri Marcorè, Fabrizio Ciavoni
