Cinema at the Institute – Incontri in Biblioteca : From Book to Film : Walter Veltroni
In Italian, with subtitles in English
Rome 1981 – two members of the Red Brigade gun down professor Mario Tessandori in the university courtyard, in plain sight. He dies in the arms of his friend and colleague Lucio Astengo. A few weeks later, Lucio Astengo himself disappears without a trace. After thirty years Caterina and Barbara Astengo, who were six and twelve years old when their father died, have put their family’s beach home – now abandoned for some time – up for sale. The house is full of memories of a childhood interrupted by their father’s disappearance, of a family broken and never put back together. In one corner, a 1970s rotary dial telephone is still plugged in to the wall, though has been disconnected for years. Caterina feeling nostalgic at the sight of the old phone, lifts the receiver and inexplicably hears a dial tone. She tries dialing a few numbers, but the phone remains silent. Then, almost as a game, she tries the number of their home in the city thirty years earlier. This time, she hears ringing: a child’s voice answers. It is herself, twelve years old, one week before her father’s disappearance. Fate has given her a chance to discover the truth.
Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Lina Sastri, Gabriele Spinelli
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