''Andata e ritorno'' ('Round trip') is a 1985

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

produced and directed by . It is located in

Pazzano Pazzano ( Calabrian: ) is a village and ''comune'' located in Locride's region in the province of Reggio Calabria ( Calabria, southern Italy). History The first known mention of Pazzano dates to a 1094 document. The town was founded as a miner ...

, a small town in the

province of Reggio Calabria The Province of Reggio Calabria ( it, Provincia di Reggio Calabria) was a province in the Calabria region of Italy. It was the southernmost province in mainland Italy and is separated from the island of Sicily by the Strait of Messina. The capita ...

, and was shot between November 1 and November 4, 1985. Dialogues are in part in pazzanese dialect with Italian subtitles, and in part in Italian.

Broadcast

The film was broadcast by TV on

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in June 1985. It was also shown at the in

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in April 2008.

Content

The film focuses on Carlo Cuteri, a Calabrian boy who comes back to his

home town. The documentary deals with the issues of work-related

emigration Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanent ...

and uses Pazzano as a symbol for general problems in Southern Italy.

Reception

Claudio Stillitano, in an article on '' Oggisud'' in 1985, explored the debate created by the local reception of the film. Film maker Daniele Segre was accused of giving an unfairly dark image of Pazzano; to which he replied that his purpose had been to expose the problems of the South through Pazzano.

External links

Andata e Ritorno on Danielesegre.itE intanto a Pazzano un film ha causato un putiferio politico, article of Claudio Stillitano
Italian documentary films Films set in Italy 1985 films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub