Monday at the Cinema: La Selva delle Lettere
Celebrating Bassani’s 100th anniversary
In Italian with English Subtitles
Shot in Bassani’s Ferrara, near the Po’s delta and in Fassoli, the documentary is part of the Tv series La selva delle lettere produced by Pupi Avati and deals with Bassani’s relationship with his hometown. The film includes interviews to Paola Bassani, Valerio Bozzi, Umberto Caniatto, Claudio Cazzola, Antonella Guarnieri, Oreste “Gavino” Mondo, Silvana Onofri, Franco Varini and Gianni Venturi. Giorgio Bassani is an Italian writer whose novels – among them The Garden Of The Finzi-Contini – are among the most beautiful in 20th century Italian literature.
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