Emilian Apennines, summer 1944. The community of Monte Sole doesn’t know it, but its destiny is about to be dramatically mowed down by Nazi-fascist fury. After Il vento fa il suo giro Giorgio Diritti casts his gaze into the folds of history, giving voice and memory to one of the most painful pages of the Italian twentieth century. Before being a film about the Marzabotto massacre, Diritti’s is a film about the bitter life of a poor but dignified community, shot with a modesty, a closeness to the life of the humble and an elegance that are unmatched in contemporary Italian cinema. The almost documentary style of Il vento fa il suo giro makes way for a rough but impeccable reconstruction of the environment, confirming the director’s love for anthropological adherence to the rites of small communities, told with a style that recalls Olmi without failing, like the previous film, to portray the harshness of those who have lived a harsh and ancient existence. A film for which there are no adjectives, a breathtaking masterpiece, a moving example of poetic and civil cinema.
Giorgio Diritti trained by collaborating with several highly regarded Italian authors, such as Pupi Avati and Federico Fellini, and by participating in the activities of Ipotesi Cinema, an institute for the training of young authors coordinated by Ermanno Olmi. In the film sector, more than 15 years have passed since his first short film, Cappello da Marinaio, selected in competition at numerous European festivals. In this time, as an author and director, he has made numerous films, documentaries, editorial and television productions, to arrive at the presentation of his first work Il vento fa il suo giro, which has revealed itself as a singular production and distribution phenomenon capable of winning numerous international awards. His latest film, L’uomo che verrà, was presented at the 2009 Rome Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize.