Jan. 26 – Turin-native director Louis Nero presents his latest documentary film as “a journey from the circumference towards the center. From the outside to the inside, in a mysterious language, as old as the world, in which travelers turn into pioneers of new worlds. It’s an external analysis that rediscovers the hidden truth under the verses.” The film, Il mistero di Dante, which came out last year, stars three Oscar winners: F. Murray Abraham, Taylor Hackford, and Franco Zeffirelli. And finally the film is ready to cross national borders. After the success of the Italian release, “Il mistero di Dante” will premiere on February 2 in Istanbul, the cradle of middle-eastern culture, a bridge between the East and the West. Nero’s last film is a tribute to the Florentine group of which the great poet,was part, “I Fedeli D’Amore.” The movie, shot in Italy, France and the United States, leads the viewer on a journey to discover the Father of Italian language, it’s intended as an investigation, through a series of interviews with artists and intellectuals such as Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Silvano Agosti, Christopher Vogler, Massimo Introvigne, Mamadou Dioume, Gabriele La Porta, Roberto Giacobbo. The documentary inserts The Divine Comedy as experienced by a Dante alter ego, the director.
