Band tour (render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's)
Synopsis:
In the most important square of Lecce, the Baroque capital of Salento, thousands of people are expected to attend the opening concert of a musical tour. The star is Cesare Dell’Anna, a figure a bit out of the ordinary. Born from a very humble family and grew up in a little village, Cesare learnt to play the trumpet in the town’s band, directed by his father Vincenzo. As adolescent, Cesare escaped from his village to avoid a destiny of drugs or criminality and came back as a bandmaster of a magical itinerary which will cross the most spectacular corners of his homeland, moving from square to square, between the shining lighting and the whirlwind of a carousel gone crazy, in a circus atmosphere that connects tradition to experimentation and unites all generations under the creative fire of music.
Producers: Daniele Cini, Ivan D’Ambrosio
Director: Daniele Cini
Nation: Italy
Estimated length: 75 minutes
Screenplay: Daniele Cini
Editing: Domenico De Orsi
Photography: Mario Bucci
Production: Talpa s.a.s.
Budget forecast: 217.000 €
Funding confirmed: 140.000 €
Missing resurces: 77.000 €
Objective: PRE-SALES, ACQUISITION, DISTRIBUTION
Shooting start: July 17th, 2021
Planned end of shooting: December, 2023
Director’s notes:
My intentions, as director of the film, is to capture dramatic situations around the tour experience, trying to describe as a man like Cesare, with his pyrotechnic fantasy, could afford critical situations and eventually delusions, pushed by a strong willpower to emerge from the risks of marginality, without betraying his roots and his territory, who doesn’t want to leave. I would like to approach it both with an “observational” way, both provoking situations between the different actors in order to have a tense end emotional narration of a difficult but spectacular challenge: transform a very local story into a global and universal one.
Producer notes:
We believe that the project GIRO DI BANDA, has all the potential to enter a circuit of Auteur festival, having a cinematographic ambition and telling with a style that we imagine original, a complex figure of great cultural value. We also believe that the musical character of the work, the curiosity that can produce an artist of extraordinary talent, so little known but with such a large local following, reach an audience much wider, predominantly youthful, in cinemas and in the main digital platforms.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Graduated as director at C.S.C. on ’78, mostly worked for RAI and History Channel. Directs fiction in the tv series LA SQUADRA and reenactments for MISTERI, ULTIMO MINUTO and BLU NOTTE. Wrote and drected for cinema the movie LAST FOOD and the shorts ARRIVANO I SANDALI, ZITTITUTTI and LA SIRENA. Documentaries: NOI CHE SIAMO ANCORA VIVE Globo d’oro 2009, IN IRAQ DOPO LA GUERRA (1991) FATTI E FANTASMI (1992), for RAI 3, SOGNI.COM (2002) for RAI fiction SECONDA PATRIA for History Channel BAMBINI GUERRIERI (2013) for RAI 1, HUNGRY AND FOOLISH (2015) for RAI EXPO 2015, LA FEBBRE DI GENNARO for MSF (2020) and IL RAGAZZO CON LA LEICA (2021) for RAI 5.
PRODUCTION Talpa s.a.s. | PRODUCERS Daniele Cini, Ivan D’Ambrosio | CONTACTS danicini@gmail.com ivan@dinamofilm.com
TALPA PRODUZIONI has for many years focused mainly on making documentaries for television. Bambini guerrieri (2014) for RAI 1, Fuori controllo, (2015, Expo Milano), Tanos, Seconda patria, La Sirena, and Noi che siamo ancora vive (Golden Globe of the Foreign Press). 60 documentaries for Geo and Kilimangiaro (RAI 3). In 2020 with D4 srl and M.S.F. La Febbre di Gennaro. In 2021 Il ragazzo con la Leica for RAI 5. In 2022 “Paola Agosti: il mondo in uno scatto”. In 2003 he developed “Giro di Banda” for A.F.C. and “Harari, l’immagine del suono” for Rai Documentari

