Infernòt is a documentary that tells the story of Italian Folk music and the city where it found its centre: Turin. And, of this centre, the heart: the FolkClub.

This documentary movie is thought to be the real place where different voices can meet and tell us what they know, about what characterizes the city of Turin, which is to say what affected the Italian and international musical history. These are mostly musicians, but among them we find historians and musicologists as well, who have been the witnesses of a long and lucky period from the end of the 50s till now. The real purpose is to meet the main characters of a new tradition that was able to tide together the great ethnomusicological researches of the past century with the best folk music interpreters (and not only that). We are meant to tell the origin of the whole music genre, since it has been thanks to this season and its main characters, precursors of all times, that a great part of the best music produced still now was born.

Director
Elia Romanelli
Story
Elisa Pajer
Director of photography
Simonluca Chiotti
Film Editor
Alice Lorenzon, Maddalena Quaggia
Original Music
Federico Bagnasco
Sound
Marco Canavese e la Classe PAD 2022 Scuola APM Saluzzo: Gerarda Avallone, Andrea Castellan, Giacomo Coldesina, Francesco Fogliano, Sebastiano Iannini, Massimiliano Lotti, Elisa Nancy Natali, Alessandro Potito, Oana Tanasa, Michele Tedeschi (Sound Design e Mix Multicanale)
Operator
Simoluca Chiotti, Davide Dell'Acqua, Andrea Dazzi, Angelo Santovito
Assistant Director
Anna Trevisiol
Altri credits

Alice Lorenzon (Color Correction); Flavia Pippi, Daniela Rosa, Mattia Venturi (Assistenti alla scrittura e alla ricerca); Andrea Tolu (Traduzioni); Machiavelli Music (Consulente per i diritti musicali); Jacopo Tomatis (Consulente musicale); Bruno Maida (Consulente storico); MAssimo Forchino (Fotografo di scena); Officina 38, Cinemarentale (Service).

Cast and characters

Davide Ambrogio, Fausto Amodei, Michel Balatti, Eugenio Bennato, Gigi Biolcati, Maria Del Mar Bonet, Nicolò Bottasso, Simone Bottasso, Michael Bryan, Pietro Buttarelli, Vinicio Capossela, Livio Cardone, Alberto Cesa, Guido Costa, Luisa Cottifogli, Giovanna Daffini, Irio De Paula, Roberto Ferrari, Eugenio Finardi, Lucilla Galeazzi, Maurizio Geri, Muhammad Habbibi Guerra, Martin Hayes, Victor Herrero, Emilio Jona, Romain Lecurier, Elena Ledda, Alessio Lega, Sergio Liberovici, Franco Lucà, Giovanni Maggiore (Giuvazza), Sandra Mantovani, Margot, Giovanna Marini, Elsa Martin, Daniel Melingo, Borja Penalba, Gianluca Petrella, Donata Pinti, Silverio Pisu, Francesco Ponticelli, Enrico Rava, Umberto Rinaldi, Fabio Rinaudo, Alessandro “Asso” Stefana, Michele Straniero, Riccardo Tesi, Facundo Torres, Ralph Towner

Organizzatore generale
Paolo Lucà
Executive production
Elisa Paier
Producer
Elisa Pajer
Co-producer
FolkClub - Centro di Cultura Popolare "Michele L. Straniero"
Production
Studio Liz
con il sostegno di Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Piemonte Doc Film Fund - sviluppo dicembre 2017 - produzione giugno 2021; Scuola Alto Perfezionamento Musicale Saluzzo; Edizioni Nota; in collaborazione con Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico; RSI; Centro Studi Alan Lomax (Palermo); Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College (New York City); Centro Ricerca Etnomusica e Oralità; Istituto Storico della Resistenza e della Società Contemporanea (Cuneo); Istituto Ernesto De Martino; Kosmos Film
Assistente di produzione
Francesca Ghezzo, Mario Santercole
Contacts
Elisa Pajer
Last update: 07 July 2023