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Journey to cinematic Emilia

2022-01-23T18:20:32.913Z


An original way to discover Emilia is to take a journey through the film sets of famous Italian directors, those who have chosen this fortunate territory to shoot their films. (HANDLE)


by Ida BiniViaggio nell'Emilia cinema (ANSA) - BRESCELLO, 22 JAN - An original way to discover Emilia is to take a journey through the film sets of famous Italian directors, those who have chosen this fortunate territory to shoot their films.

Thus the landscapes, cities, churches and palaces of Emilia, but also the atmosphere of the small villages of the province, serve as a backdrop for large and popular Italian films.


   The journey into Emilian cinematography starts from the Reggio Emilia area, to be precise in Brescello, whose streets and squares were largely the setting for the famous sagadi film, shot between 1952 and 1972, taken from the book "DonCamillo e Peppone" by Giovannino Guareschi. Walking through the village it is easy to find the small world he described, imagine the parish priest and the mayor moving between the town hall and the church of Santa Maria Nascente, which still preserves in the left side chapel the "talking" crucifix from the films, the one sculpted as a prop by Bruno Avesani and EmilioBianchini. Other cinematic objects, such as Peppone's motorcycle or Don Camillo's suit and bicycle, are preserved with other memorabilia,posters and photographs taken during the shooting in the Peppone and Don Camillo museum in Brescello.


   The locomotive that many times made us enter and leave the country is located in the park named after Guareschi, while a copy of the tank that appears in "Don Camillo and the Honorable Peppone" is located in Piazza Mingori, near the "Museo Brescelloe Guareschi - il territory and cinema ", which preserves the reconstruction of a set. In the village there are many cinematographic curiosities, such as the chapel of the Madonnina del Borghetto and the bell built by Peppone in the episode "DonCamillo Monsignore ... but not too much", now hanging under the portico of via Giglioli. You cannot miss a stop in viaCarducci, where the mayor lived, and at the railway station, at the end of viale Venturini.


   Moving south we arrive at Campegine, where the 1950 film "The path of hope" by Pietro Germi was set, which tells the desperate journey of a group of Sicilian miniatures. Traveling for 27 kilometers you arrive in Correggio, the place of origin of the singer Ligabue, who set his first film, "Radiofreccia" here in 1998, with scenegirades in nearby towns such as Guastalla and Gualtieri.


   The latter is the village of another Ligabue, the painter, brought to the big screen by Elio Germano in the 2020 film "Volevonascondermi", directed by Giorgio Rights and shot among endless poplar woods and the Po river. Finally, a homage to the Parmesan could not be missing. Reggio Emilia, whose Consortium was the source of inspiration for Paolo Genovese's film "Gli Amigos" where the protagonists, the actor Stefano Fresi and the chef Massimo Bottura, are grappling with a cooking school on a journey to discover the origins and secrets of the renowned cheese.


   Parma has also been chosen as a set by many directors, first of all Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma: the film "Primadella Revolution" dated 1964, tells the story of a young man who decides to abandon middle-class life; it is set in the Duomo, in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, in the Villa area and in the interiors of Palazzo Dalla Rosa Prati, a luxury residence with rooms and apartments. The film also immortalizes the Ducal park and the Pilotta complex, locations that the director reused in 1979 for the shooting of the film "La Luna". The film "The tragedy of a ridiculous man" was also shot in Parma in 1981, starring Ugo Tognazzi who rides a bicycle through Piazza Garibaldi and the streets of the city. Even the historic villages surrounding Parma, from Salsomaggiore Terme to Busseto,they have been transformed into cinematographic sets: some scenes of "Novecento", a 1976 Bertolucci film, were shot in Roncole Verdi, not far from Giuseppe Verdi's Busseto; as well as in the elegant hallemoresco of the Palazzo dei Congressi in Salsomaggiore Terme you can relive scenes from "The Last Emperor", a 1987 film.


   The spa town often returns as a location: in the film "IlCarabiniere a Cavallo" by Carlo Lizzani, directed in 1961; in "Arabella" by Mauro Bolognini, from 1967, and in GianniAmelio's film "The Lord of the Ants". The latter, interpreted in 2021 by Elio Germano and Luigi Lo Cascio, is also set in Busseto, Roccabianca, Fidenza and Piacenza.


   Castles have also been often used by directors, such as the romantic Torrechiara which has been the setting for films such as "Goodbye cruel brother", directed in 1971 by Giuseppe PatroniGriffi; "Condottieri", a 1937 film by Luis Trenker; "Donne eSoldati" from 1954 by Antonio Marchi and Luigi Malerba and, in 1985, "Ladyhawke" by Richard Donner with photography by VittorioStoraro. Thisthe last film was also shot in the splendid suburb of Castell'Arquato, in the Piacenza area.


   To get to know the cinematic Piacenza we start from the historical center, set in 1994 of the film "Belle al Bar" by AlessandroBen Benvenuti. Here you can recognize emblematic places such as the Duomo and the station and the landscapes that open up along the Po. Marco Bellocchio, director born in Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, set some scenes of his 2002 film "Addio delpassato" in the sumptuous party hall of the Palazzo Anguissola of Rocca Cimafava. The village of Bobbio, one of the most beautiful in Italy and famous for the Devil's bridge, is a place loved by the cinema: every year it is the seat of the Bobbio Film Festival, directed by Marco Bellocchio, and of the film school "Fare Cinema". In 1965 the famous director made his debut film there: "I Pugni in Tasca", set in the town,in the suggestive Val Trebbia and along the course of the river among very beautiful landscapes. Still Bellocchio, between 1979 and 1980, paid homage to his land in the docufilm "Vacanze in Val Trebbia", while in 2010 in "Sorelle mai" he pays homage to the same river that hosts the stories of the protagonists. The tour ends in Cortemaggiore, where Francesco Rosi shot some scenes of "Il Caso Mattei" in 1972 while the Mignano dam in ValD'Arda was in 1979 the location for the finale of "I lupiattaccano in pack" with the star Rock Hudson.The tour ends in Cortemaggiore, where Francesco Rosi shot some scenes of "Il Caso Mattei" in 1972 while the Mignano dam in ValD'Arda was in 1979 the location for the finale of "I lupiattaccano in pack" with the star Rock Hudson.The tour ends in Cortemaggiore, where Francesco Rosi shot some scenes of "Il Caso Mattei" in 1972 while the Mignano dam in ValD'Arda was in 1979 the location for the finale of "I lupiattaccano in pack" with the star Rock Hudson.


   For more information: visitemilia.com (ANSA).


Source: ansa

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