by Rocco Mortelliti
CINEFORUM with Italians in DC
Every year on Good Friday the Sicilian town of Vigata is graced with a play on Jesus Christ’s Passion, enacted by local actors. They are all amateurs, but experience, commitment and natural skills make the show the highlight of Vigata’s theatrical life. The most gifted participant is Antonino Patò, in everyday life director of the local branch of the Trinacria Bank. His rendition of the character of Judas seems to become more credible every year, and also in this year, 1890, the audience get so cross with him that they abuse him and pelt him with rotten vegetables.
As the plot commands, Judas’ part ends with his suicide, and earth opens to swallow the traitor. Antonio Patò falls down through the smartly done trap door, never to be seen again.
Both the Police and the Carabinieri are involved in the investigation. Used to competition, delegato Ernesto Bellavia and maresciallo Paolo Giummaro set to work fighting against each other, soon to realize that they better join forces not only to solve the mistery, but mostly to defend themselves from all kinds of enemies, their bosses included.
In a playful and funny way La scomparsa di Patò depicts a portion of Italian history which also sheds some light on the present.
Based on Andrea Camilleri’s novel by the same title (Milano, Mondadori 2000).
Italy 2010, 105 min.
Directed by Rocco Mortelliti
Film in Italian with English subtitles
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Rocco Mortelliti
Born in 1959, Rocco Mortelliti studied with Ferruccio Soleri at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica in Rome. Mostly active in theatre, as a director and an actor, he made his debut as a movie director with Adelmo, 1988. In 1999 he directed La strategia della maschera, on a script by Andrea Camilleri. As an actor he has worked, among others, in L’amico immaginario (dir. Nico D’Alessandria, 1994), Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo (dir. Fulvio Ottaviano, 1996), Abbiamo solo fatto l’amore (dir. F. Ottaviano, 1998).
Andrea Camilleri
Born in Porto Empedocle, Italy in 1925, for many years Andrea Camilleri worked as stage manager and theatre director. In the sixties and seventies he joined the RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) as production manager for two long-running series: Il Commissario Maigret (based on novels by Georges Simenon) and Il tenente Sheridan (an original production created by Mario Casacci and Alberto Ciambricco). Camilleri published his first novel in 1978, and in 1994 he made his break through with the series of Il Commissario Montalbano detective stories.
Beside the Montalbano series, he has written several novels mostly focusing on moments of Italian history seen from a Sicilian perspective. The imaginary town of Vigata is the stage for fictional developments which are usually only too real. A striking peculiarity of his works is the language he has adopted and gradually refined: an Italian – Sicilian freely indebted to dialect, which greatly assists in creating a vivid and lively atmosphere.
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