Twenty years without Gaber, twenty years with him, Giorgio Gaber is one of those artists who have left a deep mark on the cultural history of our country. And the documentary, written and directed by Riccardo Milani, is not only proof but also makes it known to those who do not belong to his generation and did not live through those years. The docufilm, which will be screened on Sunday 22 October in a special screening at the Rome Film Fest (18-29 October), promoted by the Gaber Foundation, produced by Atomic in co-production with Rai Documentari and Luce Cinecittà, will be in cinemas with Lucky Red on 6, 7 and 8 November. Me, us and Gaber arrives a short distance from Enzo Jannacci. I Come Along by Giorgio Verdelli, presented at the Venice Film Festival in September and released in cinemas with Medusa: both with the merit of reminding us of those free geniuses of the 60s and 70s, strongly rooted in Milan. Filmed between Milan and Viareggio, in the places where Giorgio Gaber lived (he died in Camaiore on January 1, 2003), Io, noi e Gaber aims to be a portrait that is not dusty but on the contrary alive and incisive. Milani talks about Mr. G. with fanhood in all phases of his artistic career: from his very first beginnings in the clubs of Milan to rock with Adriano Celentano, from the artistic and surreal partnership with his friend Jannacci to the iconic duets with Mina and songs with Maria Monti.
From the years of television popularity to the theater, with the invention, together with Sandro Luporini, of the Teatro Canzone, full expression of his political and cultural commitment. In the background, the place where everything converges, the Teatro Lirico di Milano, a symbol of the love between him and the Milanese public, and which today bears his name Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber.
In the portrait, which also becomes intimate when he leaves the floor to his daughter Dalia and his wife Ombretta Colli, Riccardo Milani collects many voices of colleagues and artists who lived and loved him. There are Gianfranco Aiolfi, Massimo Bernardini, Pier Luigi Bersani, Claudio Bisio, Mario Capanna, Francesco Centorame, Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini, Paolo Dal Bon, Fabio Fazio, Ivano Fossati, Ricky Gianco, Gino and Michele, Guido Harari, Paolo Jannacci, Lorenzo Luporini, Roberto Luporini, Sandro Luporini, Mercedes Martini, Vincenzo Mollica, Gianni Morandi, Massimiliano Pani, Giulio Rapetti - Mogol, Michele Serra.
"Giorgio Gaber was an important person in my life.
As a child he entertained me with the joy of Goganga, Il Riccardo or La Torpedo blu, and from high school onwards he made me raise my head and have a look at the world, marking my educational path. Telling him was above all a way for me to thank him for everything he has given me over the decades and, above all, he has given to all of us," says director Riccardo Milani. "He was an important voice for all of us, anticipating everything that has come true in recent decades, foreseeing that the ideology of the market would crush all the others today, marking a desperate continuity between him and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
For this reason, among the very rare certainties of life, there is certainly one: Gaber still serves us and we need him now".
The Gaber Foundation participated with conviction: "It was a long and intense work. We had the privilege of witnessing a real cinematographic work, the real cinema applied to the story of the artistic history and life of Giorgio Gaber, which we hope will remain available to everyone forever, just like classic films. A work created with great passion, respect and admiration for the figure of Gaber, as if he were somehow always present, as if he hovered over the work of the whole team" said the president Paolo Dal Bon.
The film and the special screening on 22 October at the Rome Film Fest are one of the Foundation's various initiatives on the twentieth anniversary of Gaber's death.
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