Film

Diary of a Sane Man

1990 · 1h 25m

Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.

Micha Bergese

The Sane Man

Julia Langley

Antonin Artaud

Sara Donadoni

grandchild

Charles Shuts

grandfather

Gad Hollander

film-maker

Monty Ray Garrison

poet

Raffaella Monti

Venus/Aphrodite

Antonio Celiento

Adonis

Carla Fioravanti

Fortune Teller

David L Hirst

farmer's voice

Ian Hinchliffe

studio chef

Lol Coxhill

fat producer

Paul Lawrence Davies

thin producer

Tony Green

producer with hat

Gerry Fitzgerald

second fat producer

Angela Abelini & Baby

motionless women

• Gad HollanderDirector

Release date

February 9, 1990

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 25m