Solitude, It’s That is a docu-fiction focusing on the writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli, dead on December 1991, at the age of 36, due to AIDS. Tondelli is known not only for being one of Europe’s greatest storytellers, but also for being one of the sharpest voices of his time. He was the writer of Altri libertini (Other Libertines), his first work and a cult novel among young people of the 80s, subjected to seizure in L’Aquila for obscenity and outrage against the public morals of the time. The film sets out in search of the places where the author had the opportunity to live and tells the story of Tondelli through his words and his books, reread by seven writers of today, born in the very ‘80s that Tondelli traversed and described. The film premiered at the latest Rome Film Festival.
“Tondelli made himself a live record of his time, he embraced the culture of the night and the interdisciplinary nature of various artistic forms, cinema, music, theatre, fashion, comics, all elements that characterised his language but also strongly conditioned that of the narrators born after him.” (A. Adriatico)
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Grazia Verasani, Stefano Casi, Andrea Adriatico
Fotografia / Photography: Ali Beidoun
Montaggio / Editing: Roberto Passuti
Musica / Music: Massimo Zamboni
Suono / Sound: Lorenzo Fedi
Scenografia / Art Director: Giovanni Santecchia
Interpreti / Cast: Lorenzo Balducci, Tobia De Angelis con la partecipazione di / with the participation of Jonathan Bazzi, Angela Bubba, Viola Di Grado, Paolo Di Paolo, Claudia Durastanti, Alessio Forgione, Alcide Pierantozzi
Produzione / Produced by: Cinemare
In collaborazione con / In collaboration with: Pavarotti International 23
Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Ministero della Cultura – DG Cinema, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Distribuzione internazionale, Distribuzione per l’Italia / World Sales, Distributed in Italy by: The Open Reel
Andrea Adriatico
Theatre and film director, journalist, architect and lecturer, Andrea Adriatico was born in 1966 in L’Aquila, Italy. In 1993 he founded the international centre Teatri di Vita in Bologna. His films have been selected at many international film festivals including Venice, Rome, Berlin (where his first feature The Wind, in the Evening was selected in 2004), London and Annecy, where his film Andres and Me won the Special Jury Prize. In 2020 he received the Basilicata Movie Award for his commitment to civil rights.
Selected filmography
2000 Anarchie cm / sf 2002 Pugni e su di me si chiude un cielo cm / sf 2004 Il vento, di sera 2007 All’amore assente (Andres and Me); Premi / Awards: Annecy Italian FF – Premio speciale della giuria / Special Jury Prize 2010 +o- Il sesso confuso, racconti di mondi nell’era dell’Aids doc. (diretto con / directed with Giulio Maria Corbelli) 2015 Torri, checche e tortellini 2019 Gli anni amari (Bitter Years) 2023 La solitudine è questa doc.
