“A surrealistic vision of the hopeful and dangerous road of life. It makes you think and it makes you laugh. Its philosophical wisdom shows the spirit of Hans Christian Andersen” (Kirsten Thorup, 1995).
There is a man cycling along a straight road that goes across the flat countryside...
World Premiere: 47e Festival Int. du Film, court-métrage en compétition, CANNES, May 1994.
Awards (selection):
16e Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France, Oct.’94: Gran Prix de la Ville de Montpellier, (first prize) and Prix de Canal+
20ème Festival International, Mons, Belgium, March’95: Singes d’Or (1st prize)
3rd Med. Fest. of New Filmakers, Larissa, Greece, Apr.’95: Jury Special Mention
11th International Odense Film Festival, Danmark, August ‘95: Jury prize
Script, producction, direction WERTHER GERMONDARI MARIA LAURA SPAGNOLI
cast FRANCESCO CAVALIERE, DANIELE FALLERI (in director’s cut version), MARIA LAURA SPAGNOLI, ROBERTO GAMBACORTA, WALTER GERMONDARI
editing ALESSANDRO CORRADI
cinematography WERTHER GERMONDARI
camera assistant VITTORIA TEMPO
Festivals (selection):
47e Festival Int. du Film, court-métrage en compétition, Cannes, May 1994; 41st Sydney International Film Festival, Australia, June 1994; 1st Film West, Milperra, Australia, July 1994; 14e Festival Intern. du Film de Comédie, Vevey, Switzerland, July 1994; V Festival Internacional de Curtas-metragens, San Paolo, Brasil, August 1994; The World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, August/September 1994; 23° Festival Intern. de Cinema, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, September 1994; 39th Cork Film Festival, EIRE, October 1994; 21° Internationaal Filmfestival van Vlaanderen, Gent, Belgium, October 1994; 30th Chicago International Film Festival, USA, October 1994; 39a Semana Internacional de Cine, Valladolid, Spain, October 1994; 16e Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier, Francia, October 1994; 13th International Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden, October 1994; 7° Festival del Cinema Italiano, Roma, Italy, 1994; Umbria Film Festival, Perugia, Italy, October 1994; Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan, November 1994; Torino Int. Film Festival, Italy, November 1994; Festival du Film des Cultures Méditerranéennes, Bastia, France, November 1994; 38th London Film Festival, United Kingdom, November 1994; Ombre Corte, Roma, Italy, November 1994; 36° Festival Int.de Cine, Bilbao, Spain, December 1994; Festival of Italian Cinema, Annecy, France, December 1994; II Mostra de Cinema Alternatiu, Barcelona, Spain, December 1994; Il Cinema Invisibile, Bologna, Italy, December 1994; 10th Fringe Film Festival, Edimburgh, Scotland, February 1995; Festival Int. du Film Court, Mons, Belgium, March 1995; 3rd Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers, Larissa, Greece,March 1995; 7th Filmfest, Dresden, Germany, April 1995; 32nd Int.Film Festival, Cracow, Poland, May’ 1995; 23rd Certamen Int.de Films Cortos, Huesca, Spain, June 1995; Film Feast, New Zealand, June 1995; 2° Festival del cortometraggio, Capalbio, Italy, July 1995; 11th Int.Film Festival, Odense, Danmark, August 1995; Festival du cinéma de Courts Métrages, Vendome, France, September 1995; Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, USA, February 1996; Giornate del Cinema Italiano, Rimini, Italy, March 1996; KunstKanaal TV, Rotterdam, NL, 1996; 6° Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, Spain, April 1996; 24° Festival Int. de Cinema do Algarve, Portugal, May 1996; Light Up!, Festival of New Comedy, Jamestown, NY, USA, September 1996; Amarcort, Cesano Boscone, Italy, June 1996; Premio Massimo Troisi, S.Giorgio a Cremano, Italy, June 1996; Festival del Cinema, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, September 1996; Festival Int.del Cinema, Rouyn Nouranda, Canada, September 1996; Corti Stellari-Il Ritorno del Corto, Roma, Italy, 1997; II° Alpe Adria Cinema, Trieste, Italy, January 1997; Rencontre France/Italie, Academie de France à Rome, June 1998; Il Cinema al Centro Mazziano, Verona, Italy, March 1998; OFF2, Fiction Overdose Festival, Roma, Italy, 1998; Mostra del Cinema Nuovo, Pesaro, Italy, October 1999; Elektrozine, Ibiza, Spain, April 2000; V Rassegna Cortometraggi d’autore, Colle Brianza, Italy; Hommage a Werther Germondari, Cinématèque de Nice, France, November 2001; inCURT, Tarragona, Spain, Italy, June 2003; Cortowave, Arezzo, Italy, july 2003; Bicycle Film Festival, New York, May 2004; Time FF Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2006; Festival International de Cinéma d'Aix-en-Provence et du Pays d'Aix, France, 2006; Festival “Delle due Città” Treviso, Italy, 2007; Corto su di te, Tivoli, Italy, 2010; Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, Italy, 2011; Trondheim Sykkelfilm Festival, Trondheim, Norway, 2018; Bicycle IFF, New York, 2018; Bicycle IFF, London, 2018
See also the exhibition: A straight road twenty years long, OGA, Roma, Italy, 2014
