Vittorio Cecchi Gori between hell and paradise in docu

    Only a few days ago finally a victory for Vittorio Cecchi Gori, to whom the rights on the screenplay of the film on Enzo Ferrari with director Michael Mann were recognized in the United States. A small satisfaction for the producer who during his life knew first heaven and then only hell. Now on his figure he arrives tomorrow on demand on the main platforms' Cecchi Gori. An Italian family ', documentary film written and directed by Simone Isola and Marco Spagnoli. Already presented in world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, the film, produced by Giuseppe Lepore for Bielle Re and distributed by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, tells the story of the adventure of the producers Mario Cecchi Gori and his son Vittorio, capable for sixty years to give our cinema many of the greatest hits of audiences and critics, in Italy and abroad.
    A story that can be summarized with a single number: four Oscar awards.
    To tell all this in the docu-film is Vittorio Cecchi Gori himself, a man who has known glory and jail, within a private epic and who also tells a lot about political Italy. To give voice to the rise of the largest Italian film production and distribution group of all time, with over 300 hits produced and well over 1,000 distributed in 50 years, also the precious testimonies of those friends who have never abandoned Vittorio: from Oscar winners Roberto Benigni and Giuseppe Tornatore, to the box-office champions Leonardo Pieraccioni and Carlo Verdone, to friends Lino Banfi, Rocco Papaleo and Marco Risi. And finally the great coaches and champions of Fiorentina, family passion, also speak, Giancarlo Antognoni, Claudio Ranieri and Roberto Mancini, current coach of the Italian national football team. "Cecchi Gori - An Italian family" is the story of fathers and sons, passionate intellectuals, men who are sometimes weak before the many women in their lives, but - says the director Marco Spagnoli - it is also the story of a Renaissance workshop that became an industry with 'ambition to transform into something else. "
    Today we read in the director's notes:" Vittorio is a man alone, but he still feels like the magnate, the producer, the president of the football team, the senator, the playboy; are the fragments of a past quickly dissolved, before us gathered, concentrated, distilled by time, by hardships and excesses in a man who, in person, is a pale reflection of that told by the chronicle of over thirty years of life, business and gossip ".
    Much of the docu-film was shot in the good retire of the producer, that is, in his parents' Parioli house purchased with the revenues from Il sorpasso.
    " I closed the buildings, finished the dinners, the glasses of champagne and the beds once filled by women accustomed to panoramic screens for their beauties, Vittorio Cecchi Gori - as can be read in the director's notes -, as happens only to the reckless teenagers and the Russian nobles who fell in Dostoevsky's novels, has returned to the house of the his parents so as not to leave anymore.
    "" I remained a son, I remained a son ", so Vittorio Cecchi Gori said several times during a visit on the set of the film to that parental home where he had taken refuge, after having had to abandon the prestigious apartment of Palazzo Borghese. Not only that, in that Roman house, he confessed, always on that occasion, with a certain childish candor: "Every now and then I seem to see my father and mother appear". .