{"id":72484,"date":"2022-02-16T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2022\/02\/berlino-ambasciata-accoglie-protagonisti-cinema-italiano\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:56:13","slug":"berlino-ambasciata-accoglie-protagonisti-cinema-italiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2022\/02\/berlino-ambasciata-accoglie-protagonisti-cinema-italiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin: The Italian Embassy welcomes the stars of Italian cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Embassy in Berlin celebrated the participation of Italian cinema in the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> International Film Festival by hosting an event with film directors, actors, producers and technical experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy that in Berlin we are represented by a recognized master like Paolo Taviani and by several young film directors, a combination of the wealth of Italian cinema over time,\u201d said the Italian Ambassador, Armando Varricchio. Paolo\u00a0Taviani is competing in the Berlinale with \u201cLeonora Addio\u201d, his first film directed without his brother Vittorio, who died four years ago. The film stems from an event concerning Pirandello and tells the story of a trip across Italy after World War II, incorporating archive footage and fragments of neorealist films.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Berlin International Film Festival will also see the participation, in different sections, of Francesco Costabile, Nicol\u00f2 Bassetti and Lorenzo Tardella, respectively the directors of \u201cUna femmina\u201d, \u201cNel mio nome\u201d (\u201cInto my Name\u201d) and \u201cLe variabili dipendenti\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Varricchio specifically recalled how, in his recent swearing-in speech, President Mattarella stressed that \u201cculture is not superfluous: it is a constitutive element of the Italian identity\u201d, calling on the Parliament to act in such a way that \u201cthis heritage of ingeniousness and achievements, to be preserved and supported, increasingly become a resource capable of generating knowledge, moral growth and a factor of economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy\u2019s event was attended, among others, by Mariette Rissenbeek, executive director of the Berlinale; Manlio Messina, Sicily\u2019s Regional Councillor for Sport Tourism and Entertainment; Carla Cattani from Cinecitt\u00e0 and Roberto Stabile, head of international relations at ANICA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Embassy in Berlin celebrated the participation of Italian cinema in the 72nd International Film Festival by hosting an event with film directors, actors, producers and technical experts. \u201cI am very happy that in Berlin we are represented by a recognized master like Paolo Taviani and by several young film directors, a combination of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-72484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72485,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72484\/revisions\/72485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}