Film Commission Torino Piemonte

2022 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the death of one of the most important authors of twentieth century Italian literature, Dino Buzzati. Several feature films have already been taken from his writings, but never before it has been created an audiovisual adaptation of Buzzati focussed not to a single story or novel, but to a theme which is transversal and fundamental in Buzzati: Death. Buzzati tried, along his professional and artistic path, to define Death in a Cartesian space, associating it to geometrical features or to a physical form. Characters of the story are in the foreground, but Death, in the background, is in fact the true protagonist. The challenge of this trilogy is to transport Buzzati's magical realism into the equally "realistically magical" atmospheres of stop-motion animation, a technique that despite it enormous expressive potential, in Italy has a limited diffusion so far. By doing so, we will do an in-depth and innovative analysis of Buzzati's work.