Precious, thanks to Covid I will tell the story of the earthquake

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 19 - It may happen, as happened to Alessandro Preziosi, that the Covid, the pandemic, was a sort of fly-by for his first film as a director: the documentary The law of the earthquake, previewed today at 15 / edition of the Rome Film Fest and then in theaters with ilLuce on November 23-24-25.

    His poetic journey through the Italian earthquakes, from Belice to Irpinia and Amatrice, through the image archives of the Istituto Luce is in fact accompanied by statements from men of culture and science, collected during the pandemic, in which the shadow is felt. long-lasting motivation of this reality that makes everyone a little more fragile, more ready to open up.

    Preziosi, a very young witness to the earthquake in Irpinia in 1980, takes us through his own personal narrative path, in Belìce, then in Friuli, Assisi, L'Aquila, Amatrice drawn from repertoire, animated scenes, declarations of witnesses of then and today: come on Fire Brigade to volunteers to Mario Cucinella, Pierluigi Bersani, Angelo Borrelli, Grazia Francescato and others.

"Filmed during Covid with people who had lived it and were experiencing it, I collected testimonies of great humanity such as that of De Luca who recounted his 'earthquake', recalling his heart attack, or of Sapelli who declares that his emotional earthquake 'there was when he met his wife ".

    Of course, adds the actor who does not hide his desire to continue to experiment with directing, "this film is about death as well as about life, but above all about the great love that I have for the human being".

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