The Filmmaker is an Athlete: Conversations with Vittorio De Seta ( Vittorio De Seta: le cinéaste est un athlète )

The Filmmaker is an Athlete: Conversations with Vittorio De Seta (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vittorio De Seta: le cinéaste est un athlète
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Vincent Sorrel
Barbara Vey

Written By:
Vincent Sorrel
Barbara Vey

Actors:
Vittorio De Seta ..... Himself

Synopsis:

This portrait of a film director unlike any other attempts to capture the essence of Vittorio de Seta's rapport with the humble people he filmed and elegantly brought to Cinema Scope's big screen in color from the 1950s onwards. From his home in Calabria, the film director looks back over his epic films. Starting with the sound on his earliest short documentaries, this craftsman of the screen and pioneer of sound tells us how he went on small fishing boats catching swordfish, to the depths of sulfur mines and to the top of Mount Stromboli to film and record. Then, evoking his feature-length films such as 'Diary of a Schoolteacher', 'Half a Man' and 'Bandits of Orgosolo', Vittorio de Seta explains how filming other people also involves a certain amount of soul searching.

With this portrait of Vittorio De Seta, the film centres on the relationship the film-maker created with those he filmed, the poor, to carry them with elegance onto the big screen, in colour and Cinemascope.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 November, 2015.