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Hanna e Violka

by Rossella Piccinino

Documentary | 2009 | Mini dv | 56 min.

date
wednesday 14 july
location
LOZZO ATESTINO, Villa Correr

Hanna Korszla is a caregiver who lives in Salento with Gina and Antonio; she constantly looks after the elderly man, who is over eighty and suffers from the Alzheimer’s disease. Violka is Hanna’s daughter, she is nineteen and unemployed. Their lives interweave and they end up by exchanging their roles in taking care of ‘Ntoni. So Hanna can come back to Poland and finally see her family again, but she has to face the difficulties of the past and those of the present, while Violka, now a baby-caregiver, has to measure herself with a stay which is far from being a holiday.

Rossella Piccinno (1978) graduated in Documentary and Experimental Filmmaking at the DAMS of Bologna and got a diploma as a videomaking technician. She made her debut with the short movie Interno sei (2005), followed by the documentaries Mauritania: città-biblioteche nel deserto (2006), Occhi negli occhi-Memorie di viaggio (2007), Voci di donne native e migranti (2008), To my Darling (2008) and Hanna e Violka (2009). Now she has been working at the National Centre of Contemporary Art and Cinema “Le Fresnoy”, in France, where she shot the fiction Il Richiamo del tordo (2010).

Direction
Rossella Piccinino
Script
Rossella Piccinno, Nicolas Gray, Maggie Armstrong
Photography
Rossella Piccinno
Editing
Rossella Piccinno
Music
Marco Mattei, Marco Pierini
Cast
Antonio Cacciatore, Hanna Korszla, Violka Korszla, Giovanna Margarito
Production
Rossella Piccinno, DakhlaVision, Variemani

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