Trevico – Torino (Viaggio nel Fiat – Nam) (1973)
Director: Ettore Scola – Story/Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Diego Novelli – Director of photography: Claudio Cirillo - Set decoration: Luciano Ricceri - Film Editing: Raimondo Crociani – Music: Benedetto Ghiglia - Sound: Vittorio Massi - Assistant Director: Giorgio Scotton - Production: Unitelefilm – Country: Italy - Running time: 98’
Cast: Paolo Turco (Fortunato Santospirito), Vittoria Franzinetti (Vicky)
The film:
Fortunato Santospirito is a young man from Trevico who moves to Turin, in northern Italy, where he is promised a job at the FIAT factory. The film takes on a documentary slant as it follows the intertwining of human stories and political events that the protagonist has to confront on a daily basis: housing, racism, employment, the rising awareness of being exploited, an exciting yet bitter love story, and the need to keep going in the factory and to continue the battle to defend his dignity, amid contrasts and disappointments.
Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna carried out the digital restoration of Trevico-Torino (Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam) in 2008, starting from the original 16mm negative that was stored at the Istituto Luce – Cinecittà in Rome.
“I had the idea for Trevico-Torino for a long time, and then one night I sat in front of a tape recorder and haphazardly fleshed out the concept. […] Trevico-Torino was created in Turin day by day: the only certainty was the desire to observe the condition of factory workers who came from southern Italy.”
[Ettore Scola - Archivi AAMOD - Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico.]
The film restoration:
Trevico–Torino (Viaggio nel Fiat–Nam) by Ettore Scola (Italy, 1973) was restored by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna.
Acknoeledgements to Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico di Roma for their collaboration during researches. Special Acknoeledgements to the Scola Family.
The originale 16mm negative preserved at Istituto Luce – Cinecittà was scanned at 4K.
The soundtrack was restored from a vintage 35mm print preserved at Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino that proved to be better than the original negative 16mm soundtrack, which is still available.
As for grading, a 35mm print preserved at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma was used as reference.
The restoration was carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2018.
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