THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE
ZVANÌ – IL ROMANZO FAMIGLIARE DI GIOVANNI PASCOLI
In collaboration with Isola Edipo
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In the history of film and state television, the shared knowledge of a cultural heritage that shapes the new generations, in tandem with the role of their school education, is a precious legacy to which Italy’s leading filmmakers, have long contributed. Today, thanks to Giuseppe Piccioni and his new film Zvanì – Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli, produced by Rai Fiction and MeMo Films, this artistic project resumes. History and legacy: two commitments to audiences by filmmakers and state television today, in a conversation with directors and editors.
ZVANÌ – IL ROMANZO FAMIGLIARE DI GIOVANNI PASCOLI
1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
Italy, 2025, 110′, color
direction
Giuseppe Piccioni
screenplay
Sandro Petraglia
with the collaboration of
Lorenzo Bagnatori
Eleonora Bordi
cast
Federico Cesari (Giovanni Pascoli / Zvanì)
Benedetta Porcaroli (Maria Pascoli / Mariù)
Liliana Bottone (Ida Pascoli)
Luca Maria Vannuccini (Raffaele Pascoli)
Sandra Ceccarelli (Zia Rita)
Fausto Paravidino (Gabriele D’Annunzio)
Riccardo Scamarcio (Cacciaguerra)
Margherita Buy (Emma Corcos)
productions
Rai Fiction
Memo
producers
Fania Petrocchi
Andrea Ozza
Francesco Melzi D’eril
Gabriele Moratti
creative producer
Donatella Botti
executive producer
Alexandra Rossi
with the support of
MiC – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo
Italian distribution
Academy Two
Giuseppe Piccioni made his directorial debut in 1987, with Il grande Blek. In 1999, he directed his fifth feature, Fuori dal mondo, which earned him five David di Donatello awards. His 2001 film Luce dei miei occhi competed at the Venice Film Festival, which bestowed two Volpi Cups on its stars, Sandra Ceccarelli and Luigi Lo Cascio. Since 2004, Piccioni has taught directing, screenwriting, and film acting at the l’Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico. His most recent films are Questi giorni (2016) and L’ombra del giorno (2022).
