Luigi di Gianni
1926 (99 лет)
Nascita di un culto
Luigi di Gianni
In the province of Salerno in Campania, a village is attracting more and more pilgrims, sometimes several hundred a day. Arriving by bus, car and even on foot, they pray to Saint Antony to protect them from demons and disasters. They do this through the intermediary of a certain Giuseppina who embodies the dead soul of young Alberto, the grandson of the former seminarian who died accidentally some ten years earlier.
Nascita di un culto
Il male di San Donato
Luigi di Gianni
In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.
Il male di San Donato
Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
Luigi di Gianni
Riccardo Cucciolla
In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
Vajont (Natale 1963)
Luigi di Gianni
Christmas 1963, cemetery of Fortogna, fraction of Longarone, where the victims of the Vajont disaster are buried (9 October 1963). The survivors spent Christmas here, watching over their dead and praying for them: the Christmas tree was brought to the graves. A certainty emerges from the interviews: what matters are the people, not the money.
Vajont (Natale 1963)
