Pietro Marcello
After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Pietro Marcello made his debut in 2000 as assistant director for the documentary "Gennarino" by Leonardo Di Costanzo and directed the short documentary film "La Baracca" (2005). In 2007 he shoots "Il passaggio della linea", a documentary shot at night on Italian express trains. In 2009 he directed the dramatic documentary "La Bocca del lupo", which won the Torino Film Festival and then the Nastro d'Argento, the David di Donatello for best documentary and the Vittorio De Seta prize at the Bif&st 2010 for best documentary. In 2011 he presents two documentaries at the Venice Film Festival: "Il silenzio di Pelešjan", about the avant-garde director Artavazd Pelechian, and "Marco Bellocchio, Venezia 2011", a short portrait of the director Marco Bellocchio. In 2015 Pietro Marcello presents the feature film "Bella e perduta" at the Locarno and Toronto festivals. In 2019 he directs his first feature film, a project he has been working on for a long time, "Martin Eden" - based on the novel by Jack London - which was presented in Venice (where actor Luca Marinelli received the Coppa Volpi) and in Toronto where it won the Platform Award".
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La Bocca del Lupo
Enzo has spent half his life in prison behind bars. The Sicilian gangster, a repeat offender, has nevertheless found love there as well as a form of salvation through poetry. In snatches, Pietro Marcello paints his portrait, like so many scraps of a broken life, along with a portrait of the underclass from Genoa’s Croce Bianca, Via Prè and Sottoripa neighbourhoods with their labyrinths of cut-t...
Il passaggio della linea
A nocturnal tale, a trip to the heart of Italy on the night trains that carry the poor and the immigrants who travel the length of the peninsula from south to north and vice versa. The journeys, stations, landscapes, industries, architecture, the faces and the dialects, all come together to offer a snapshot of the country.
La Bocca del Lupo
Enzo has spent half his life in prison behind bars. The Sicilian gangster, a repeat offender, has nevertheless found love there as well as a form of salvation through poetry. In snatches, Pietro Marcello paints his portrait, like so many scraps of a broken life, along with a portrait of the underclass from Genoa’s Croce Bianca, Via Prè and Sottoripa neighbourhoods with their labyrinths of cut-t...
Il passaggio della linea
A nocturnal tale, a trip to the heart of Italy on the night trains that carry the poor and the immigrants who travel the length of the peninsula from south to north and vice versa. The journeys, stations, landscapes, industries, architecture, the faces and the dialects, all come together to offer a snapshot of the country.
