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Tight 13-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Zinanà
2004 0h 13m IT
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7.2
SOLID
★7.2TMDB · 3
Drama
Synopsis
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A Donatello award winning short film about the Archangel Tarturro who declares that he will learn to play the cymbals - a skill he acquires, even if he is not quite as good as the other members of his band.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Paolo De Vita
Mimmo Mancini
Gianluca Abbattista
Arcangelo Bambino
Pinuccio Sinisi
Barbara Manzatto
Antonella Maddalena
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Pippo Mezzapesa
- Writers
- Luca Gasparre, Loretta Valentino, Antonella Gaeta
- Languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
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The take
Pippo Mezzapesa directs. Michele D'Attanasio behind the camera. Fabio Bianchini Pepegna cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Italy. Dialogue in Italian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 13-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 22 years ago.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Pippo Mezzapesa, shot by Michele D'Attanasio. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Editor Fabio Bianchini Pepegna shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Paolo De Vita and Mimmo Mancini and Gianluca Abbattista carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt0487135 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Michele D'Attanasio
- Editing
- Fabio Bianchini Pepegna
- Runtime
- 13 min · 0h 13m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- IT
- IMDB
- Zinanà (2004)
Also by
Pippo Mezzapesa
Community reviews
What people are saying
- CinemaSerf★ 6/10
You know when someone gives your kid a Christmas present of a penny whistle, or they go to school and come home told to learn the recorder! Well just imagine how you'd feel if your son decided that he wanted to learn how to play the cymbals! Well this young lad - the incarnation of a visiting celestial being - encounters a man at a café who is polishing his, and he is soon determined to have some of his own. Luckily (or not) this musician happens to have a spare set and so now, spool on twenty years or so and he has a spot in the town's band. He is pretty hopeless at timing his clashes, but now is his chance to impress a young lady from the village. What are the chances that he can actually get it right on the day? It ends up the most unlikely of love stories, this, but along the way is quite observational about a society that celebrates life and death in a remarkably similar way - with music. There's little dialogue to speak of, really, just a gentle direction of travel that raises a smile (and a grimace) as this character becomes a man with a different longing.
Production companies
Who made it
- RI
River Film
Key crew
- EditorFabio Bianchini Pepegna
- Costume DesignerLoretta Valentino
- MusicEnrico Cacace
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2004-03-26
Also known as
International titles
- CymbalsIT
