original title:
Calma e gesso - In viaggio con Mario Dondero
directed by:
editing:
production:
Sol Si Fa audiovisivi, in collaboration with Max Man Coop., Dream Film e Ila Palma Edizioni, Fototeca di Fermo - Archivio Mario Dondero, with the support of Marche Film Commission
country:
Italy
year:
2015
film run:
130'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (05/07/2016)
Images of towns, places, women and men, stories of partisans, incredible, true stories wind
on. So do also pictures in black and white and colour slides. Roads and landscapes roll.
We are on trip with one of the greatest masters in world photojournalism and this
documentary aims to tell the adventurous life of Mario Dondero, photorepoter, through
his present always on the go.
A path throughout 5 years spent at the photographer's side, following his researches, his
exhibitions, openings, conferences, prize-givings, various events and simple walks.
A journey through thoughts and actions from which it emerges a cross-section of the
national and global chronicle experienced in first person and at the forefront by the fifthies
till today. The discretion of our photojournalist and his total extraneousness towards the
sensationalism of the paparazzi shines through those lucid and profoundly narrative
releases. There is no rethorics in his attitude, but only love, irony, indignation, exposure
and research of the truth.
In Fermo, where he lives, in Milan, in Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Naples, Florence, we find
ourselves hanged together and curious around the infinite facts immortalized by our
protagonist. Each time it seems like being inside the world archive.
From Corrado Stajano to Ermanno Rea, fro Gianni Berengo Gardin to Uliano Lucas, from
Vinicio Capossela to Don Andrea Gallo, in this doc many will try to tell what he is, moved
by deep esteem and friendship, even if Mario is, as usual, unseizable, and he is already
shooting at a new destination with his Leica on his shoulder, because he knows too well
that there will always be a future next, not to be forgotten.