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What Do You Know About Me (2009)

What Do You Know About Me (2009)

Documentary

In the last thirty years, millions of spectators have vanished - Inquiry on a great Italian mystery

Release Date: 2009, October 16
Directors: Valerio Jalongo
Countries: Italy
Production: Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Michele Placido, Maurizio Nichetti, Vincenzo Mollica, Silvio Berlusconi, Luciana Castellina, Ian Christie, Antonio Sancassani

Overview:

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.