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Dominican Rep. Sacro GRA
- Original title
- Sacro GRA
- Year
- 2013
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Gianfranco Rosi. Idea: Nicolo Bassetti
- Cast
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Documentary, Self: Roberto Giuliani, Franceso De Santis
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Social Drama. Poverty
- Synopsis
- After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA—to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of the winding zone: a nobleman from the Piemonte region and his college student daughter sharing a one-room efficiency in a modern apartment building along the GRA; a botanist making audio recordings of the interiors of palm trees to detect and then poison the insects that are devouring them like a plague; a modern day cigar-smoking prince doing gymnastics on the roof of his castle, surrounded by the sea of new apartment buildings proliferating around him; a paramedic in an ambulance eternally on duty treating car accident victims along the vast road; and an eel fisherman living on a houseboat beneath an overpass along the Tiber River. Far from the iconic sites of Rome, the GRA is a repository of stories of those at the edges of the everexpanding universe of the capital city.
- Awards
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2013: Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion - Best Movie2013: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary2013: Sevilla Film Festival: 2nd Best Film
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