Un film di Mauro Caputo
To honour the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016, the Italian Cultural Institute will be showing “L’orologio di Monaco”, a movie distributed by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and based on the collection of short stories written by Giorgio Pressburger, who is both the narrator and the main actor in the movie.
Projected for the first time during the International Rome Film Festival 2014 the movie, which is the second one directed by Mauro Caputo, confirms the collaboration with director/novelist Giorgio Pressburger.
The movie, inspired by Pressburger’s novels, brings to the big screen the story of a Central European family in which some of the names of the greatest protagonists of the last two centuries of history converge: Karl Marx, Heinrich Heine, Felix Mendelssohn, Edmund Husserls, Emeric Pressburger. Few others can narrate as well as Pressburger; he is a writer, a director and an intellectual who is really able to communicate the physical and intangible lands of what was (and still is) the Miltteleuropa.
The narrator (Pressburger himself) relives with intense emotion, through a research intertwining past and present, memories and events that have led him to discover “what it really means to belong to a human community of dead and living people”. The movie, based on true stories, includes live footage held at the Istituto Luce Cinecittà as well as original video material by film director Emeric Pressburger, kindly made available for this movie by his nephew, Scottish director and Oscar prize winner, Kevin MacDonald.
During the event there will be an intervention by the Italian Ambassador in Malta, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Salvatore Schirmo, a delegate from the Fondazione Museo della Shoa in Rome, Professor Anna Pipierno and the delegate of the International School of Holocaust Studies (ISHS) of the Yad Vashem Musem in Jerusalem, Mr. Yiftach Ashkenazy