Break Up - L'uomo dei cinque palloni (1965)
Man With the Balloons, The
Director: Marco Ferreri – Story/Screenplay: Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona – Director of photography: Aldo Tonti - Set decoration: Carlo Egidi - Film Editing: Enzo Micarelli – Sound editor: Teo Usuelli - Costumes: Luciana Marinucci - Production: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion (Roma)/Les Films Concordia (Paris) – Country: Italy/France - Running time: 85’
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni (Mario), Catherine Spaak (Giovanna), William Berger (Poet), Antonio Altoviti (Engineer in the sauna), Sonia Romanoff (Sonia), Igi (Gianluigi) Polidori (Polidoro, nightclub owner), Charlotte Folcher, Raniero di Giovanbattista (Ballons salesman), Marina Pepori (Porter’s daughter), Aldo Tonti (Man with the glasses in the sauna), Ugo Tognazzi (Driver), Marco Ferreri (Customer in the snack shop)
The film:
"I decided to shoot the entire film L’uomo dei cinque palloni in Milano because I imagined it and wrote its screenplay, with Rafael Azcona, as an event possible in a large modern city, where men live conditioned by the system setting a huge mechanism in motion. Therefore, these persons are making a big deal when they don’t understand the reason of the malfunctioning of a small wheel in the big mechanism […]. It is definitely a paradoxical story, but also reality often is …"
Marco Ferreri, «L’Unità», 23th January 1964
The film restoration:
The restoration was conducted by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino in collaboration with Warner Bros. Los Angeles and the munificent contribution of Massimo Sordella and the support of Nuovo Imaie (Roma). The restoration was realized from a 4K scan of an original interpositive in the MPI lab in Los Angel and from a sound positive. Both the elements were conserved at Warner Bros.
Special thanks to CSC – Cineteca Nazionale for making available as a reference the 35mm copy printed from the original negative at Turner International, Los Angeles.
The restoration was carried out at the laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2016 and it was screened as a world preview at the 73nd Venice Film Festival in the Venezia Classici section.
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