Il vento fa il suo giro (2005)

Director:

Giorgio Diritti

Writers:

Fredo Valla
Giorgio Diritti

Release Date:

4 May 2007 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see...

Plot Keywords:

Goat | Village | Cheese | Language | Flashback

Awards:

3 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Thierry Toscan	...	Philippe Heraud
Alessandra Agosti	...	Chris Heraud
Dario Anghilante	...	Costanzo
Giovanni Foresti	...	Fausto
Caterina Damiano
Giacomino Allais
Daniele Mattalia
Ines Cavalcanti
Kevin Chiampo
Frédérique Chiampo
Emma Giusiano
Bruno Demaria
Angelo Martelli
Nadia Belliardo
Bruno Manzo
Piero Tomassino
Giuseppe Rinaudo
Lidia Ellena
Vittorio Luciano
Sergio Piasco
Bernardo Giaime
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fabrizio Arese
Sergio Arese
Adriano Belliardo
Liliana Belliardo
Margherita Belliardo
Giorgio Bertolotti
Carlo Bordone
Gabriele Chiampo
Franco Chiapello
Signora Chiapello
Giovanni Chiappello
Pietro Chiappello
Attilio Cottura
Federica Emanuel
Riccardo Ferrara
Pierangelo Fiorentini
Maria Fresia
Debora Gambino
Franco Garbarini
Mario Garnero
Andrea Gertrosio
Silvio Gertrosio
Michelangelo Ghio
Aldo Giaime
Chiara Mainero
Anna Mazza
Graziella Menardo
Bertolotti Michele
Manuel Moruzzi
Clara Mottura
Giorgio Mottura
Giacomo Odoberto
Giuseppe Parise
Oreste Salomone
Enrico Simondi
Luigi Viale
Demetrio Zema

Directed by
Giorgio Diritti

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Giorgio Diritti
Fredo Valla

Produced by
Simone Bachini	....	producer
Mario Chemello	....	producer
Giorgio Diritti	....	producer
Alberto Marchiori	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Marco Biscarini
Daniele Furlati

Cinematography by
Roberto Cimatti

Film Editing by
Edu Crespo
Giorgio Diritti

Production Design by
Emanuele Perrone

Costume Design by
Raffaella Ciavarelli
Manuela Marzano

Makeup Department
Francesca Ioppolo	....	makeup artist (season 1)
Biasi Pierangela	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Simone Bachini	....	production manager
Rocco Lobosco	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Roberto Carta	....	second assistant director
Manuel Moruzzi	....	first assistant director (last season)
Davide Raganati	....	assistant director (season 2)
Massimo Tonti	....	assistant director (season 1)
Elena Vesuviano	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Maria Ida Clementel	....	unit production designer
Ismaele Fontana	....	unit production designer

Sound Department
Alberto Fasolo	....	boom operator
Paolo Ferrario	....	boom operator
Gaia Russo Frattasi	....	boom operator (season 1)
Carlo Missidenti	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Enrico Bortignon	....	best boy electric
Enrico Bortignon	....	director of photography: additional unit
Fiore Cosimo	....	dolly grip
Fiore Cosimo	....	still photographer
Jaime Palomo Cousido	....	camera operator: archive footage
Alessio Garello	....	grip
Alberto Marchiori	....	assistant camera
Alberto Marchiori	....	focus puller
Elisa Maritano	....	electrician
Giuseppe Parise	....	electrician
Giuseppe Parise	....	still photographer
Andrea Vaccari	....	Steadicam operator
Andrea Vaccari	....	camera operator
Alessio Xamin	....	electrician

Editorial Department
Alessandro Conte	....	colorist

Other crew
Martino Bisson	....	title graphics designer
Silvia Bortolazzo	....	continuity
Carlotta Faresin	....	production assistant
Daniela Gabellotto	....	continuity
Davide Gerardo	....	production assistant
Michela Giorgini	....	press officer
Katia Goldoni	....	production assistant
Grazia Monge	....	production assistant
Samuela Renoglio	....	production accountant
Tatiana Vecchio	....	production assistant

Thanks
Edouard Dubois	....	musical special thanks

Production Companies

• Aranciafilm
• Imago Orbis

Distributors

• Aranciafilm (2007) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Lab 80 Film (2007) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Dolmen Home Video (2008) (Italy) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Limina  post-production facilities

Also Known As:

"The Wind Blows Round" - International (English title) (imdb display title), New Zealand (English title) (festival title)
"E l'aura fai son vir" - Italy (festival title)
"A szél a maga útját járja" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Der Wind zieht seinen Weg" - Germany
"Le vent fait son tour" - France
"O Vento Faz Sua Curva" - Brazil (festival title)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | Occitan | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Occitan Valleys, Piedmont, Italy

Company:

Aranciafilm

Trivia:

One of the few movies mostly spoken in Occitan.

Splendid scenery, superb acting, great direction.

Underrated would be the main qualification for this splendid movie.

It's a pity that our taste has been ruined by the avalanche of movies made with the technique used for TV commercials --superfast cutting almost to the point of never assimilating the scene, it goes by so fast-- and of course, accompanied by guns, shooting, blowing people and vehicles all over the screen, violence being the most important factor in practically every film.

This time we are confronted with a very different product. This movie starts very quietly --directed very evenly by Giorgio Diritti-- a car drives through gorgeous sceneries --Italy, the Piamonte region-- valleys, mountains, incredibly majestic setting, and a zigzagging road bordering a deep abyss, and we are introduced to a couple of natives within the car, discussing the selling or renting of one of the properties in this small village --Ussolo, within the valley Maira-- that once, in 1900 had 1.000 inhabitants and nowadays no more than 50? to a french cheese maker.

At first the quite old natives are very enthusiastic about the new arrival, since the village is almost dead --everybody left it long ago to look for better lives in faraway places-- and they make plans, thinking that the cheese maker could be a good addition to the summer months when the tourists will come (In winter the weather is very bitter and the snow covers everything).

The film develops this idea starting with a very moving reception from the natives to the newcomers from France --only this couple are professional actors: Thierry Toscan and Alessandra Agosti-- but everybody else in this movie is as good an actor as anybody you could think of-- and slowly but surely incidents start building up and greed, envy and the worst feelings in human beings start to raise their ugly heads.

Excellent development, excellent camera work and excellent everything! If you saw "Stromboli" with Ingrid Bergman --Rosellini directing-- this film has an approximation in its story to that one, that is, the main characters are driven out of the village because if they remain, their lives will become hellish.

It's very impressive the way one notices the gradation of moods changing from good to nasty. And when I say nasty, I mean NASTY.

To me, this is a jewel of the Italian cinema, but unfortunately, a totally noncommercial production. The film is in Italian and the particular dialect (Occitane) of this place --very difficult to understand, so much so that when they speak it, the subtitles in Italian translate the meaning TO ITALIANS!