Terramatta
| Original Title: | Terramatta |
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| Director: | Costanza Quatriglio |
| Cast: | Voce narrante: Roberto Nobile |
| Story: | Vincenzo Rabito,Costanza Quatriglio,Chiara Ottaviano |
| Screenplay: | Costanza Quatriglio,Chiara Ottaviano |
| Genre: | Documentario |
| Production: | Chiara Ottaviano |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Runtime: | 76' |
| Nationality: | ITA |
| Location: | Città e dintorni Chiaramonte Gulfi (RG) /Città e dintorni Ragusa (RG) / |
The documentary directed by Costanza Quatriglio is based on the memoir Terra Matta by Vincenzo Rabito. Terramatta is a symphony of landscapes - old and new, near and far - filmed with the help of electronic music and archives. The story is brought to life by Vincenzo Rabito, an illiterate Sicilian, through a blend of imaginary, musical language - neither Italian nor dialect. A striking storyteller, he recounts Italian twentieth century history through thousands of dictated, tightly written, rope-bound pages, tracing the extremes of a century marked by poverty and economic boom, disgrace and redemption. Rabito gives an impassioned and unique autobiographical perspective on a complicated part of Italian history, forcing his audience to face up to contradictory and uncomfortable truths.