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The Zoldo Valley star of the film The Bear skin with Marco Paolini


District: Veneto
Province: Belluno (BL)
Locations: Forno di Zoldo (BL)
Date: 2016-11-08

The Zoldo Valley star of the film The Bear Skin with Marco Paolini

It is the first feature film by Marco Segato, adapted from the novel by Matteo Righetto. The subject is of Marco Segato; screenplay by Enzo Monteleone, Marco Paolini and Marco Segato.

The film

Val di Zoldo - La pelle dell'orso

The film is set in the fifties in a village in the Dolomites.

Protagonists are Peter and his son Domenico.

Peter is a loser, an outcast. His life is consumed in solitude and drowned in wine. To survive he works employed by Crepaz. Domenico is a cute little boy, but introverted. Between the two there is an uneasy relationship made up of silences, harshness and a growing estrangement. With a son who feels the need to love and a father totally anaffective.

This situation is broken by an old and ferocious bear called "the Devil", "el Diaol". Becomes the object of community fears. For damage that can actually provide, but more and more as an archetype of all fears.

Community members do not know what to do, they seem unable to react.

In this climate Peter launches a challenge to his master Crepaz: he's going to kill the bear in exchange for money. If he doesn't succeed, he will work for a year for free. The challenge is collected from the general skepticism.

Pietro goes hunting. Domenico follows him. They immerse themselves in the woods to research the bear.

In this research they end up living together, perhaps for the first time, a shared and profound experience . Father and son, in the context of an extraordinary and immense nature, build a relationship that broke through in the walls that had been erected.

The adventure becomes the occasion, the place of change.

To say it with the quote of the climber Royal Robbins choice to present the film: "The mountains remain motionless, we who after an adventure we are no longer the same."

Actors

Val di Zoldo - La pelle dell'orso

The main character is played by Marco Paolini.

Marco Paolini is the author and leading interpreter of the civic theater. He is involved in theater since the seventies. His shows are for the most part developed in monologues often recited in the Venetian language. The story of Vajont is his work better known and appreciated.

In the movies until now he has had supporting roles. "I have not received many proposals to do the film if not by my friends" (says Paolini).

He took part in the film by Carlo Mazzacurati (evident his influence on the film!). He has had supporting roles in the film by Nanni Moretti, Andrea Segre, Davide Ferrario, Daniele Luchetti.

Now with this film a protagonist role: he plays the father Peter Sieff.

The other main characters: Leonardo Mason (Domenico Sieff), Lucia Mascino (Sara), Paolo Pierobon (Crepaz), Maria Paiato (Mrs. Dal Mas), Mirko Artuso (Franco), Valerio Mazzucato (Bruno), Massimo Totola (Toni Dal Mas) Silvio Comis (Santin).

Locations

Val di Zoldo

Only the mountains, some type of mountains could be the background of a history of this kind, so strong, timeless, far from any contamination with the contemporary.

The film does not show the most known Dolomites, that also were location of many important film productions.

The director recounts the genesis of the choice of these territories: "We visited many places, even more famous by the film's point of view. When we arrived in the valleys around the Forno di Zoldo we realized it was the perfect setting because these places have retained a wild profile, a wild appearance ". 

Forno di Zoldo oven was one of the municipalities of the valley; in 2016 it merged with Zoldo Alto, creating the new municipality of Val di Zoldo.

Val di Zoldo is a municipality included in the Belluno Dolomites National Park.

The sequences of the initial part, in the country from which the trip, were shot in the Fornesighe fraction.

Fornesighe, explains Marco Paolini, has a peculiarity: it is made of wood. All countries were made of wood, but Fornesighe is the only one that has remained intact and has not gone burned. It not occurred that replacement with brick houses as was the case in many other countries.

Many places in the area are touched by the film: the Belvedere of Fornesighe bars, Veda di Fornesighe, around the lake of Vach, the wood of Sottorogno, Val Pramper, with a foray into Friuli.

But the country was not only a background.

Almost all the extras in the film are indigenous to the area.

They have actively participated in the film.

The film stressed the search for a local memory and at the same time it was fed.

 

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