Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

90 mins | Documentary | July 24, 2014

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

90 mins | Documentary | July 24, 2014

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Producers POLIVIDEO DI P. PESSINI E C.
Original title Poltrone Rosse - Parma e il cinema
Directors Francesco Barilli
Writers Michele Guerra, Francesco Barilli

Cast

Michele Guerra

as Self / Narrator

Enrico Medioli

as Self

Franco Nero

as Self

Roberto Benigni

as Self (archive footage)

Fabrizio Gifuni

as Self

Lorenzo Baraldi

as Self

Francesco Rosi

as Self (archive footage)

Fausto Fornari

as Self

Victor Poletti

as Self

Adriano Aprà

as Self

Roberto Campari

as Self

Sergio Leone

as Self (archive footage)

Tonino Guerra

as Self (archive footage)

Antonio Marchi

as Self (archive footage)