Alfonso
Sansone produttore per caso – Italian title
(Alfonso
Sansone producer by chance – English translated title)
A 2014
Italian production [Ronin Film
Production (Rome)]
Producer:
Claudio Costa
Director:
Claudio Costa
Teleplay:
Claudio Costa
Photography:
Claudio Costa [color]
Music: Michele
Ruggiero
Gianluca
Lombardi
Running
time: 58 minutes
Cast:
Alfonso
Sansone, Franco Avenia, Guido Fiandra, Ingrid Lill Høgtun, Francesco
Maselli, Helen Pringle, Agostino
Sansone, Giancarlo Santi, Vittorio Taviani, Giorgio Urbinelli, Tonino
Valerii
After
World War II, Alfonso Sansone (1924-2015) starts to produce documentary films
with his brother Agostino and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
Thanks to Citto Maselli, he comes into contact with Henryk Chroscicki
(1919-2000), an Australian young man of Polish origin, who is in Rome to attend
the Experimental Cinematography Centre. Henryk and Alfonso become friends and
start dreaming of the films they would like to make. They set up the ATC
company through which they rent out film equipment to production companies and
in France they buy the license to create the anamorphic lens renamed
Totalscope. Afterwards, they become producers and establish the Sancro Film
production company, whose name is an acronym for their surnames: Sansone and
Chroscicki. Their production company ensures the success of numerous directors
such as the Taviani brothers and Marco Ferreri. After the film El Cochecito
(The Little Coach), they start a fruitful collaboration with Ferreri. Sancro
Film also produces western films by involving Hollywood stars like Telly
Savalas, James Coburn, John Phillip Law and Lee Van Cleef. Alfonso and Henryk
become two well-known producers; they work with Rizzoli, Lombardo, Ponti,
Levine and many others. Proving after the hard times, with hard work and dreams
there come prosperous times.
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