In 2008, Le Macabre, a small Italian CBGB's, closed its doors. Like the famous New York club, it was a hub for rock music in the 1980s and 1990s, but was located in Bra, in the sleepy Italian province. Diaframma, Marlene Kuntz, Vinicio Capossela, Nico, C.C.C.P., and many others performed on its stage. Through its protagonists, the film tells the story of the birth of a music movement that wanted to shake off the myth of singer-songwriting. It is the story of the Busso family who created and ran it, but also that of a generation that found an identity in music.
The documentary is a 75 min one, and is telling a story of the place put in a larger context of the surrounding territory and in an even larger one, that of the Italian Rock of the last 25 years. In order to be able to go through the stages of this course videos and photos will be used, as well as interviews, re-enactments and some live concerts shot during the active years of Le Macabre. These interviews are true portraits and the interviewed people true characters of the documentary. We shall visit them in their homes, working places, in their towns.They will be not only the witnesses of the Le Macabre history but also characters who with their faces and voices represent the history of thousands of people that had been visiting the place since ‘72 to the present day. That is a whole generation of rock music lovers of those times, with an ultimate objective to leave a trace of the true value that Le Macabre had for those who had visited and loved the place, for Bra, for that territory and for the history of the Italian rock.
