Don Bosco (1935)
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini - Story: Onorato Castellino, Rufillo Uguccioni - Screenplay: Goffredo Alessandrini, Sergio Amidei, Aldo Vergano - Director of photography: Arturo Gallea - Set decoration: Teonesto De Abate – Film editor: Giorgio Simonelli – Music: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Gian Francesco Malipiero - Production: Lux Film - Country: Italia - Running time: 90’
Cast: Gian Paolo Rosmino (Don Giovanni Bosco), Maria Vincenza Stiffi (Margherita, the mother of Don Bosco), Ferdinando Mayer (young Giovanni Bosco), Roberto Pasetti, Vittorio Vaser, Felice Minotti
The film:
«Don Bosco was for me a chance to talk about a dramatic character, with a human value in many of his aspects. Even If I wasn’t and I’m still not a practicing Christian, the admiration for a man like Don Bosco is beyond any opinion about the religion: an atheist respects and admires him for the bravery, the sacrifice. […] I had been waiting for a long time to make a choral movie, a great dramatic fresco, and I tried to realize this big painting with the Salesians and the whole world of that time. There was the character who dominated all the scene, Don Bosco, full of those human values I wanted to dedicate my tale to. That’s why I sticked to the life of Don Bosco, almost without a screenplay. »
(G. Alessandrini, in F. Savio, Cinecittà anni Trenta, Bulzoni, Roma, 1979).
The film restoration:
The digital restoration of the second version of the film Don Bosco directed by Goffredo Alessandrini has been realized starting from a nitrate negative property of the Sede Centrale Salesiana conserved at CSC-Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa and from nitrate positive of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, integrated with a nitrate positive of Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, two negatives and a 16 mm positive of CSC-Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa and a positive nitrate fragment conserved at George Eastman Museum. The work has been done at the laboratory of CSC - Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa in 2021.
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