Tempi morti, Italia, 2019

Dead Times is based on a true story. A widow finds two tombs for her husband. A mystery that can only be solved by a shrewd professor and by two unlikely gravediggers. What they find will open the doors to a forgotten past.

Dead Times is an original project that aims to attract interest from a conscious citizenship on the link between the history of the 20th century and the contemporary, focusing on the story of Italian Military Internees (IMI). The IMI were a unique case in history: more than 650,000 Italian Anti-Fascists that, for various reasons, after September 8th 1943, were imprisoned in German, Polish and Greek camps.

Dead Times faces a difficult subjects, playing with lightness and irony. Starting from a dramatic and ignored story, we question ourselves about the loss of memory, both collective and individual, as a pathological disorder. Can a person, or a State, consider itself adult if it has chosen to forget rather than to face its past?

Director

Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello

Story

Damiano Monaco

Screenplay

Gabriele Monaco, Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello, Simone Gigiaro

Director of photography

Francesco Crivaro

Film Editor

Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello

Set Design

Isabella Bruschi

Costume Design

Marta Alessandra Bertino

Original Music

Andrea Cremisi, Daniel Cremisi

Sound

Gian Luca Tamai

Make-up

Coralie Gaspard

Altri credits

Mirko Guerra (Montaggio del suono); Riccardo Olivero (Sound Effect); Domenico Brioschi (Voice Over); Denis Sabato (Capo Macchinista); Stefano Palladino, Domenico Bruzzese (Macchinisti); Riccardo Forin (Elettricista); Jacopo Meneghin (Focus Puller); Davide Merlo (Assistente Operatore e Operatore drone); Renato Di Gaetano, Virginia Chiodi Latini (Fotografi di scena); Lisa Srefani & Gabriele Salvo Buzzanca (Storyboard); Chiara Fucà (Graphic Design); Chiara Tomasetta (Traduzioni).

Cast and characters

Anna Bonasso, Roberto Accornero, Lorenzo Demaria, Jurij Ferrini, Andrea Nicolini, Paola D'Acquila, Gabriele Bocchio, Michela di Martino.

Executive production

Damiano Monaco

Production

H12 Film, Infrared (Estonia), Ouvert (Italia)

Con il sostegno della Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Short Film Fund -

Distribution

ShortsFit

Festival - markets - events

Distribuito su Short Tv (Amazon Prime Video) in 19 Paesi UE; distribuito su Odilo in Paesi extra UE; finalista al Globo d'Oro 2021; in concorso al Glocal Film Festival 2021 (Torino); in concorso, candidato al premio Miglior attore a Asti Film Festival 2020; in concorso a Vittoria Peace Film Fest 2021 (Ragusa); in concorso al Festival "Tulipani di Seta Nera" (Pomezia, Roma); in concorso a "Storia in corto" 2020 (Mentana, Roma); in concorso al Castelli Romani Film Festival Internazionale 2020 (Frascati, Ariccia); vincitore Premio del pubblico a "Corto Weekend" 2020; premio per la Miglior Regia a La spezia Short Film Awards 2021; in concorso, candidato per il premio Miglior attore, produttore e miglior sceneggiatura al Sezze Film Festival 2021 (Latina); in concorso a Montelupo Fiorentino Film Festival 2020 (Firenze); in concorso a Veterans Film Festival 2020 (Sydney); in concorso al Dhakar International Film Festival 2021; in concorso "One Country One Film 2021 (Apchat-Issoire, Francia); in concorso a "Filmare la storia" (Torino); in concorso a The Cabriolet Film Festival 2021 (Beiirut); in concorso a The International Short Film Festival "Short Form" 2021; in concorso a Monza Film Festival 2021; in concorso a Film Festival Pino Scicolone (Cefalù); in concorso a Papà International Historical Film Festival 2020 (Pàpa, Ungheria).

Last update: 09 November 2022