The revolution experienced on a film set. A critic who enters the shooting mechanism, dragged almost by chance. The experience of being “criticized” by his colleagues, and of seeing himself in the duplication of the screen. This is the fascinating and very personal story of Morando Morandini, who in 1963 received from Bertolucci the unexpected proposal to participate in the film Before the Revolution. And together with the elsewhere, the East. The meaning of the estrangement of unusual places seen through the eye of the camera, from The Road of Oil, a reportage made in Persia in 1965, to the China of The Last Emperor, to the India of Little Buddha. A crossing of borders guided by love affairs between cultures with an age-old charm.
Morando Morandini is a journalist, critic and co-author of the “Storia del cinema” Garzanti and the best-seller “Dizionario dei film” Zanichelli. He wrote “Non sono che un critico” (republished in 2003 by il Castoro). Since 2004 he has been in charge of the Laurafilmfestival in Levanto.
Italo Spinelli is a professor at the University of Siena. Filmmaker. He collaborated with the Treccani Encyclopedia for the entry “Indian Cinema” and founded and directed "Incontri con il Cinema Asiatico", a film festival that takes place annually in Rome.
