BERLINO EST OVEST by Enza Negroni
Italy, 2019, 90’
THE TALE OF THE MOST EVER-CHANGING CAPITAL OF THE LAST CENTURY
The documentary starts from the discovery of the archive of music manager Maurizio Stanzani, who in the eighties decided to go to Berlin with an analog camera and an operator, filming bars, punk people and Berlin bands that were playing right in front of the Wall. The discovery of this extraordinary archive, a total of 50 hours of brand-new footage, makes it possible to showcase what in the eighties was the most incredible and ever-changing European capital: dyed hair, extravagant leather jackets, synthpop and new wave showcase a city animated by bands that played avanguarde music, by performers, by punk bars in occupied bunkers and disco. Stanzani's journey gets told today, thirty years after the fall of the Wall, by Manuel Agnelli, who has lived and researched his music idols (David Bowie, Einstürzende Neubauten, Iggy Pop) in the divided Berlin and the reunited Berlin he has played as a prominent artist of the Italian music scene. Maurizio Stanzani, who died prematurely, was a promising music Manager from Bologna, founder and organiser of one of the most known venues of Bologna in the eighties: the QBO. Designer and cultural enterpreneur, Stanzani decided to further his horizons, by moving to Berlin. His desider was to bring German bands to Italy, hoping that German rock would have been appreciated by Italians.
Director: Enza Negroni
Cast: Manuel Agnelli
BIOGRAFIA:
Enza Negroni, after attending DAMS in the eighties in Bologna, tried her hand firstly in the fiction and then in the documentary. Director, screenwriter and producer, she has been working for thirty years exploring different cinematographic languages, from the social documentary to the historic or art related, with insights in film labs that she has created in different social contexts. She is co-founder and is, for several years, the president of the DER association, Documentarists Emilia Romagna.
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