16 January 2022

Voice: Ermanna Montanari
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli
Subject: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
Direction: Marco Martinelli
Cinematographer: Alessandro Tedde
Editing: Marco Martinelli and Francesco Tedde
Production: Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe together with Antropotopia

With Sergio Scarlatella, Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina, Roberto Magnani and citizen of Ravenna. With the contribution of Assicoop Romagna Futura agente generale UnipolSai Assicurazioni. In collaboration with Italian Institute of Culture of Abu Dhabi, Regione Emilia-Romagna and Ater Fondazione

In the year of the Dante 700 in the world National Celebrations, the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi present for EXPO Dubai fedeli d’Amore, Marco Martinelli’s fifth film that transfigures the eponymous poem ‘about’ Dante and our present day, centred on Ermanna Montanari’s extraordinary vocal research and Luigi Ceccarelli’s powerful electro-acoustic music. A “polyptych in seven panels”, suspended between everyday harshness and surprising visionary atmospheres, shot in Ravenna, and where various figures speak to us: the fog, the demon of the pit, a crucified donkey, the little devil of the “rabbuffo”, Italy kicking itself, Antonia, daughter of Alighieri

Marco Martinelli, playwright and director, founded Teatro delle Albe (1983) with Montanari, sharing its artistic direction. He has been awarded with several prizes included: seven Ubu Prizes, Hystrio Prize, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, the Prize for Career Achievement – Festival Journées théâtrales de Carthage. He directed lover 50 performances and 5 films, his texts have been translated, published and staged in Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, Brazil, and the USA and selected by Fabulamundi and Italian and American Playwrights Project.  Ermanna Montanari, actress, author and set designer, for her original itinerary of vocal research, she has received acknowledgements such as seven Ubu Prize, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, Lo straniero Prize “dedicated to the memory of Carmelo Bene”, Eleonora Duse Prize. She founded in 2021 Malagola School of vocality together with Enrico Pitozzi. Edited by L. Mariani Do, undo, do over. Ermanna Montanari in Teatro delle Albe (Titivillus) and by E. Pitozzi Akousma Figure and voice in the acoustic theatre of Ermanna Montanari (Quodlibet). 

Realized in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.