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Franco Giraldi's "Il Carso" Found and Restored
At the Pordenone Docs Fest - Le Voci dell'Inchiesta, preview of the debut work of the Julian director Franco Giraldi Il Carso. Giraldi passed away on December 2, 2020, he lived in a nursing home in Santa Croce, on the Carso. A short film produced by Documento Film and shot on the Trieste Carso during the Christmas holidays of 1959. Considered lost by the director himself, until three years ago. When the undersigned was lucky enough to find a 35mm copy, in excellent condition, preserved in the fabulous archives of the Cineteca di Bologna. The restoration was carried out by the laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata of Bologna and supported by Cinemazero of Pordenone. A...
“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
The stall begins with Visions of the exodus between past and future
The 23 edition of "La Bancarella. Salone del libro dell'Adriatico orientale" (Eastern Adriatic Book Fair) begins today, Thursday 2021 September, in Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo in Trieste, organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. All events can be viewed live on the websites www.anvgd.it and www.arcipelagoadriatico.it The theme of the first of the four days is "Visions of the Exodus between past and future" and it will be inaugurated, at 17:00 pm, by a round table in the presence of the director of the city newspaper Il...
The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi's Cinema
The Julian director Franco Giraldi, who passed away a few months ago, would have recently turned 90: the cinematographic works that Giraldi dedicated to Istria are the subject of the new publication by the film critic and National Vice President of the Anvgd Alessandro Cuk. "The Istrian trilogy in Franco Giraldi's cinema" is the title of the publication, of which we publish the introduction with the kind permission of Alcione Editore. The project to create this publication began three years ago with the intention of taking a further step in the study of the relationship between cinema and the eastern border. After the two monographs, concerning the two films...
In memory of Franco Giraldi
by Diego Zandel - 04/12/2020 I don't remember when I personally met Franco Giraldi, the director who passed away last December 2 in Trieste, from Covid, at the age of 89. Certainly in the 2000s, when he was the partner of the writer Elisabetta Rasy, who had introduced me as a contributor to the afternoon edition of the Roman daily Paese Sera, for which I believe she was a correspondent and to whose morning edition I already collaborated. But I became friends with him many years later, in the early 1974s, on the occasion of a screening of the film La Rosa Rossa, from XNUMX, at the Casa del Cinema in Rome, which was broadcast on television at the time and adapted by Giraldi from the novel of the same name by the writer...
