Teheran – Fabrizio Cattani’s “Chronicle of a Passion” won three of the most important honors at the Iran International Film Festival. Cattani’s film received the Best Film Award, Best Director and Best Actress Starring in Valeria Ciangottini. This year, the sixth edition of the festival, organized by the Municipality of Tehran, the Festival aims to identify relevant aspects of urban life models and innovative cinematographic works and to promote empathy and moral values in cinemas by offering a platform for exchange Of ideas and experiences among the cities of the world. Cattani’s film shows the rather complex conflict between the individual and a dehumanizing society, capable of stifling dignity as well. Played by Vittorio Viviani and Valeria Ciangottini, “Chronicle of a Passion” is dedicated to one of the greatest Italian tragedies of recent times. There is an army of entrepreneurs, workers and unemployed who have preferred to die instead of living in the shame of having lost everything, even dignity. The film speaks about those so-called “State suicides”. (9colonne)
