Italy

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IL CINEMA: SERGIO LEONE E I SUOI FILM

At the end of the great effort of the working and editing of C’era una volta in America, a three-hour-twenty-minute film, Sergio Leone who had engaged a controversy with the Northern-american distribution of this film (one of the most beautiful of the history of cinema) felt the need to expose his singular filmography and his story. He did it with Gianni Minà in an historical documentary that tells also about the reinvention of the western genre by Leone and also about the power of his cinema. Leone chose as set for this narration the Eur amusement park in Rome to emphasize his visionary spirit, a pleasure for those who have a childish soul. To the documentary gave their contribution Clint Eastwood and Robert De Niro, the symbol-actors of his cinema, as well as Claudia Cardinale, the only woman in his western films and Ennio Morricone, the author of all the soundtracks of his films. In the narration extracts of all the director’s works are interposed, from Un pugno di dollari to Per qualche dollaro in più, from Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo to C’era una volta il west, from Giù la testa to C’era una volta in America.