Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema (2014)

Documentary

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.

Director: Francesco Barilli
Writers: Francesco Barilli, Michele Guerra.

Casts

	Michele Guerra as Self / Narrator
	Bernardo Bertolucci as Self
	Vittorio Storaro as Self
	Enrico Medioli as Self
	Franco Nero as Self
	Stefania Sandrelli as Self
	Roberto Benigni as Self (archive footage)
	Fabrizio Gifuni as Self
	Sonia Bergamasco as Self
	Francesco Barilli as Self
	Lorenzo Baraldi as Self
	Enrico Lucherini as Self
	Francesco Rosi as Self (archive footage)
	Fausto Fornari as Self
	Mario Lanfranchi as Self
	Victor Poletti as Self
	Riccardo Joshua Moretti as Self
	Adriano Aprà as Self
	Roberto Campari as Self
	Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)
	Tonino Guerra as Self (archive footage)
	Antonio Marchi as Self (archive footage)

Crew