Buongiorno, notte (2003)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Marco Bellocchio

Writers:

Anna Laura Braghetti (novel) and
Paola Tavella (novel) ...
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Release Date:

5 September 2003 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Plot Keywords:

Pope | Italy | Brigate Rosse | Kidnapping | Communism

Awards:

6 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Maya Sansa	...	Chiara
Luigi Lo Cascio	...	Mariano
Roberto Herlitzka	...	Aldo Moro
Paolo Briguglia	...	Enzo
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio	...	Ernesto
Giovanni Calcagno	...	Primo
Giulio Bosetti	...	Paolo VI (as Giulio Stefano Bosetti)
Gianni Schicchi		(as Gianni Schicchi Gabrieli)
Carlo Castelli
Bruno Cariello	...	Segretario del Papa
Alberto Cracco	...	Medium
Emanuela Barilozzi	...	Annalisa
Roberta Spagnuolo	...	Sandra
Giovanni Cappelli	...	Un impiegato
Antonio De Matteo	...	Fratello Chiara
Alessandro Luci	...	Prete
Massimo Sarchielli	...	Impiegato
Maria Pia Iannuzzi	...	Impiegata
Daniele Zamboni	...	Agente immobillare
Maria Luisa Bellocchio	...	Zia di Chiara
Letizia Bellocchio	...	Zia di Chiara
Laura Lucciarini	...	Giulia
Alberto Gasbarri	...	Iadro
Simona Nobili	...	Vicina di casa
Tony Carnevale	...	Direttore
Elena Bellocchio	...	1 Bambina Matrimonio
Chiara Natoli	...	2 Bambina Matrimonio
Gianmarco Rinaldi	...	3 Bambino Matrimonio
Giorgia Calascibetta	...	Figlio Piccolo Sandra
Giulia Calascibetta	...	Figlio Piccolo Sandra
Fabio Camilli	...	(voice)
Valerio Sgamuffa	...	Chierchetto
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giulio Andreotti	...	Himself (uncredited) (archive footage)
Tina Anselmi	...	Herself (uncredited) (archive footage)
Marco Bellocchio	...	Uomo alla seduta spiritica (uncredited)
Amintore Fanfani	...	Himself (uncredited) (archive footage)
Emilio Fede	...	Himself (uncredited) (archive footage)
Giovanni Leone	...	Himself (uncredited) (archive footage)

Directed by
Marco Bellocchio

Writing credits
Anna Laura Braghetti		(novel "Il prigioniero") and
Paola Tavella		(novel "Il prigioniero")
Marco Bellocchio		screenplay and
Daniela Ceselli		screenplay collaborator

Produced by
Marco Bellocchio	....	producer
Sergio Pelone	....	producer

Original Music by
Riccardo Giagni

Cinematography by
Pasquale Mari		(photography)

Film Editing by
Francesca Calvelli

Casting by
Béatrice Kruger		(as Beatrice Kruger)

Production Design by
Marco Dentici

Costume Design by
Sergio Ballo

Makeup Department
Daniela Altieri	....	assistant hair stylist
Gloria Pescatore	....	makeup artist
Roberta Petrini	....	key makeup artist
Sabrina Romanelli	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Sandra Bonacchi	....	production manager
Luigi Lagrasta	....	general organizer
Massimiliano Pisechi	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daniela Ceselli	....	assistant director
Lucille Cristaldi	....	assistant director
Giuseppe Eusepi	....	assistant director
Lorenzo Grasso	....	assistant director

Art Department
Cristiana Amendola	....	assistant art director
Gian Maria Cau	....	assistant art director
Giancarlo Gabrielli	....	props
Gianluca Gabrielli	....	assistant props
Federica Gotti	....	second assistant decorator
Roberto Nespoli	....	assistant props
Fabrizio Puliani	....	assistant props
Luciano Puliani	....	props
Briseide Siciliano	....	second assistant production designer

Sound Department
Gaetano Carito	....	direct sound
Simone Carnesecchi	....	assistant boom operator
Fabio Cerretti	....	sound editor
Emanuela Di Giunta	....	sound editor
Pierpaolo Merafino	....	boom operator (as Pier Paolo Merafino)
Angelo Raguseo	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Carlo Cascioli	....	special effects technician
Paolo Del Bravo	....	special effects technician
Camillo Leporati	....	special effects technician
Michele Quartullo	....	special effects technician
Elio Terribili	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Claudio Misantoni	....	digital effects coordinator
Claudio Napoli	....	visual effects supervisor (uncredited)
Gian Luca Rizzo	....	visual effects producer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Gianluca Antolini	....	clapper loader
Giuliano Boni	....	grip
Alessandro Caiuli	....	electrician
Domenico Caiuli	....	gaffer
Eugenio Nelson Cavallari	....	second clapper loader
Francesco Cavazza	....	second assistant camera
Fabrizio Cerchio	....	assistant camera
Guido Cimatti	....	Steadicam operator
Guido Cimatti	....	camera operator
Claudio Conti	....	grip
Stefano D'Amadio	....	still photographer
Alberto Grassi	....	generator operator
Antonio La Barbera	....	electrician
Massimo Moreschini	....	electrician
Roberto Moreschini	....	key grip
Alessandro Natale	....	camera trainee
Fabrizio Nicoletti	....	grip
Sergio Verdecchia	....	generator operator
Daniele Caiuli	....	electrician (uncredited)
Daniele Rucci	....	grip (uncredited)

Casting Department
Aldo Piccapane	....	extras casting: Sax Studio Srl.

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Emanuela Curatolo	....	set wardrobe
Alessandro Di Porto	....	costumer trainee
Erminia Melato	....	costume assistant
Giacoma Mellini	....	wardrobe (as Giacoma Antonia Mellini)

Editorial Department
Enrico Barone	....	associate editor
Anita Cacciolati	....	assistant editor
Elide Camberini	....	color technician
Pasquale Cuzzupoli	....	color supervisor
Claudio Misantoni	....	assistant editor
Pamela Quaglia	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Danilo Cherni	....	music engineer
Danilo Cherni	....	musician: sampler
Riccardo Giagni	....	music consultant
Riccardo Giagni	....	music designer
Riccardo Giagni	....	music programmer
Riccardo Giagni	....	musician: sampler
Ricky Lancellotti	....	conductor: The Low Budget String
Maurizio Rizzuto	....	music designer
Maurizio Rizzuto	....	music engineer
Maurizio Rizzuto	....	music programmer
Carmenita Scarfone	....	musician: clarinet solo

Transportation Department
Spartaco Calanchini	....	driver
Alberico Gatti	....	driver
Alfredo Iannone	....	driver
Stefano Lentini	....	driver

Other crew
Federica Barozzi	....	location manager
Elisabetta Burranca	....	production coordinator
Adriano Ceccolini	....	production secretary
Maximiliano Crapa	....	production assistant
Elena Dodu	....	press attache
Marina Lyakhovenko	....	accountant
Yulieth Martinez	....	first production administrator
Iole Natoli	....	script supervisor
Daniela Ovi	....	production assistant
Marina Pelone	....	second production administrator
Stefano Pelone	....	production assistant
Arianna Rossini	....	press attache
Tatti Sanguineti	....	historical consultant
Margherita Spampinato	....	assistant script supervisor
Ermanno Taviani	....	location manager
Federica Verani	....	production assistant
Bernardo Vesigna	....	production assistant

Thanks
Dario Alfonsi	....	thanks
William Arcese	....	thanks
Alberto Baldini	....	thanks
Stefano Bonagura	....	thanks
Paola Castagna	....	thanks
Anna Lina Ferrante	....	thanks
Pierfranco Foggia	....	thanks
Luciano Hinna	....	thanks
Ennio Libalesso	....	thanks
Pantaleo Valerio Massimo	....	thanks
Enrico Morigi	....	thanks
Viviana Nardomarino	....	thanks
Ettore Pacetti	....	thanks
Alessandro Parenzo	....	thanks (as Sandro Parenzo)
Federico Pitzalis	....	thanks
Paolo Rossetti	....	thanks
Elisabetta Rossini	....	thanks
Pasquale Santoli	....	thanks
Carlo Sciobica	....	thanks
Avv. Silvio Tonazzi	....	thanks (as Silvio Tonazzi)
Luigi Valentini	....	thanks (as Avv. Luigi Valentini)
Alexis Vidakis	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Filmalbatros
• Rai Cinemafiction
• Sky (co-operation)

Distributors

• Wellspring Media (2005) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• 01 Distribuzione (2003) (Italy)
• Eesti Televisioon (ETV) (2007) (Estonia) (TV)
• Océan Films (France)

Special Effects

• Proxima

Other Companies

• Sax Studio  extras casting

Also Known As:

Good Morning, Night (International: English title)

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Spain:13 | Italy:T | Australia:M | South Korea:15 | Brazil:12 | Philippines:PG-13 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Company:

Filmalbatros

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Near the end, when Aldo Moro walks away in the deserted street, you can see a multicolored Peace flag in the background. Those flags would decorate Italian streets only in 2003, to oppose the invasion of Iraq.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera (2003)

Soundtrack:

Marcia trionfale

largely speculative true life story

On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro, the Prime Minister of Italy, was kidnapped by a group of Communist revolutionaries known as the Red Brigade and held in captivity for 55 days. Through letters and photos sent by the kidnappers, the authorities learned that Moro had been given a "trial" by the Red Brigade and sentenced to death for his crimes against the proletariat of Italy - and, indeed, on May 9th of that year, his body was found, riddled with ten rounds of bullets, in the trunk of an abandoned car.

In "Good Morning, Night," writer/director Marco Bellochio takes the events and drains them of much of their sociopolitical significance, choosing instead to focus on the human drama at the story's core. Bellochio looks at the ambivalent feelings and conflicted motives underlying the kidnappers' actions, particularly in the case of an attractive young woman named Chiara (confidently played by Maya Sansa), who comes to question her commitment to "the cause" as the reality of what they are planning to do begins to sink in. It is largely through her eyes that we come to view the events and to see Moro less as an impersonal force to be manipulated for political purposes and more as a simple human being with all the fears, insecurities and desperate desire for life common to us all. Indeed, the political aspects stay largely in the background, relegated mainly to clips of stock footage showing us the principal players of the time dealing with the crisis.

With its dreamy visions, fantasy sequences, and tendency towards wild speculation, the film may frustrate those who would have preferred a more historically accurate, documentary approach to the topic. But Bellochio, as an artist, is less concerned with the "facts" of the case than with exploring the dilemma of the revolutionary's mindset. And to that end, he has done an exemplary job in "Good Morning, Night."