Magliari, I (1959)
Magliari, The
Director: Francesco Rosi – Screenplay: Francesco Rosi, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi – Director of photography: Gianni Di Venanzo, Aiace Parolin – Film editor: Mario Serandrei – Music: Piero Piccioni – Art Direction: Dieter Bartels – Costume design: Graziella Urbinati – Producer: Franco Cristaldi – Production: Vides, Titanus, S.G.C. - Country: Italy/France - Running time: 116'
Cast: Alberto Sordi (Ferdinando Magliulo detto Totonno), Belinda Lee (Paula Mayer), Renato Salvatori (Mario Balducci), Nino Vingelli (Vincenzo), Aldo Giuffré (Armando), Lina Vandal (Frida) Carmine Ippolito (Don Raffaele Tramontana)
The film:
"What is a magliaro? A magliaro is a swindler, someone who gets by however and as best as they can, naturally without worries, since they have no morals. All three characters are magliari: Sordi, Belinda Lee and Renato Salvatori..."
Francesco Rosi, from Napoli è il cuore del mondo, interview by Morando Morandini, «Schermi», II, n. 18, novembre 1959
The film restoration:
The restoration of I magliari was carried out by the Fondazione Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, from the original negatives that the production company Titanus entrusted to the Fondazione Cineteca del Comune di Bologna.
The restoration of the film was conducted by the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2009, using analogical technology to rework the images and digital technology for the sound. In particular, the printing phase aimed to recreate the definition and shadings of Gianni Di Venanzo’s photography. Even though Di Venanzo was inspired by the atmosphere of American noir films from the late 1950s, he was also deeply sensitive to the new photographic experimentation of the Nouvelle Vague and modern cinema, which exploited the qualities of shooting live, including its effects on the lighting. The digital reworking of the sound has enhanced Piero Piccioni’s superb soundtrack, which features some of the most important songs of Italian easy listening music from that period.
The restored print of I Magliari was projected at the 66th Venice Film Festival as the first film of the project “100 + 1. One Hundred Films and One Country, Italy” curated by Fabio Ferzetti.
The preservation work is part of a project to valorize the works by Francesco Rosi, including cataloging and making available his archival material, which was acquired by Museo Nazionale del Cinema between 2003 and 2008.
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