CIVICO ZERO

CIVICO ZERO

original title: CIVICO ZERO
directed by: Francesco (Citto) Maselli
cast: Ornella Muti, Massimo Ranieri, Letizia Sedrick
screenplay: Francesco (Citto) Maselli
cinematography: Felice De Maria
editing: Olivia Orlando
set design: Marco Dentici
costume design: Lina Nerli Taviani
music: Angelo Talocci
producer: Roberto Andreucci
production: A.K.S., Istituto Luce, supported by MiBAC
distributor: ISTITUTO LUCE
press agent: Studio Punto & Virgola
country: Italy
year: 2007
film run: 80'
format: 35mm - colour
release date: 23/11/2007

The very title of Address Unknown sums up the dramatic story of the film. The homeless, vagrants, those with no known address. Return to sender: but what can you hope to receive if you do not exist? This is the status of millions of people throughout the world who are destined to receive nothing but suffering and affliction. The film was shot in Rome, where there are more than 10,000 homeless people and 2,000 vagrants. But the statistics are not the point: Rome is merely a symbol for a more general discussion of the process of liberalist globalisation that is literally ruining the existence of millions of human beings. The tragic images of the people and refuse churned out by a major Western city point to a larger and more pressing problem.