
Film
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
2014 · 1h 30m · Documentary
Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma.
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Overview
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Cast
Michele Guerra
Self / Narrator

Bernardo Bertolucci
Self

Vittorio Storaro
Self
Enrico Medioli
Self

Franco Nero
Self

Stefania Sandrelli
Self

Roberto Benigni
Self (archive footage)

Fabrizio Gifuni
Self

Sonia Bergamasco
Self

Francesco Barilli
Self
Lorenzo Baraldi
Self

Enrico Lucherini
Self

Francesco Rosi
Self (archive footage)
Fausto Fornari
Self
Mario Lanfranchi
Self

Victor Poletti
Self
Crew
- Francesco BarilliScreenplay · Director
- Michele GuerraScreenplay
- Pierpaolo PessiniDirector of Photography · Producer
- Nicola TassoEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- July 24, 2014
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
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