A CHE PUNTO È LA NOTTE (Italy, 1994, TV movie in two episodes: 100′ e 108′)

Monday, September 29th, at 6:00 p.m.; Palazzo della Radio – Mediateca Rai, Auditorium C, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 31

Event in partnership with Rai Teche

On Monday, September 29th, at 6:00 p.m., in Auditorium C, there will be a screening as part of the series “ Archive Alive!” Four steps into crime  of the first of two parts of the TV movie A che punto è la notte (1994), based on Fruttero & Lucentini’ homonymous novel (1979), directed by Nanny Loy and starring Marcello Mastroianni. The aim is to discover two types of work related to investigations, one through fictional film with a chief of police dealing with mysteries and intrigues to be unraveled, and the other through narration, in the introduction to the evening, of the real experience of an investigative journalist, Jacopo Ricca, who has written for “la Repubblica” and “Il Venerdì”, tackling news, politics, cinema, and books, and who is currently working in the Turin newsroom of Rai.

Event presented by Susanna Gianandrea (Rai Teche) and Jacopo Ricca (journalist).

Admission method : free access with mandatory reservation by writing to mediateca.torino@rai.it.

International title: A che punto è la notte
Original title: A che punto è la notte
Director: Nanni Loy
Screenplay: Laura Toscano, Franco Marotta, Nanni Loy (dall’omonimo romanzo di Carlo Fruttero e Franco Lucentini)
Photography: Claudio Cirillo
Editing: Franco Fraticelli
Sound: Nicola Piovani
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Marie Laforêt, Yvonne Sciò, Max von Sydow, Angela Finocchiaro, Alessandro Haber, Leo Gullotta, Ennio Fantastichini, Emmanuelle Riva, Sergio Fantoni, Renato Carpentierie
Production: Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana

In 1994, Nanni Loy shot the movie in two different parts. A che punto è la notte for Rai: set in Turin, the movie stars Marcello Mastroianni as the chief of police Francesco Santamaria (reprising the role almost twenty years after La donna della Domenica ). It all begins with the murder of a difficult priest, not looked upon favorably due to the hospitality he offers to drug addicts, foreigners and prostitutes.
The screening of the first episode will take place within the exhibition “Archive Alive! Rai Teche racconta il giallo e il noir Rai” on detective work. Fiction cinema, with its chief of police dealing with mysteries and intrigues to be revealed, will encounter the narration – at the beginning of the evening – of the investigative journalist Jacopo Ricca’s real experience.

Nanni Loy (Cagliari 1925 – Fiumicino 1995) was a director, screenwriter, actor, author of TV programs that built the history of television, such as Specchio Segreto created for Rai in 1964. He described Italian society with his humor both on television and in cinema. After graduating at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1948, in 1957 he debuted as director, directing Parola di ladro with Gianni Puccini. Two years later came his first movie directed alone, Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti .

Filmography (selection): Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959), Un giorno da leoni (1961), Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962), Made in Italy (1965), Detenuto in attesa di giudizio (1971), Sistemo l’America e torno (1974), Café Express (1980), Mi manda Picone (1984), Amici miei – Atto III° (1985), Scugnizzi (1989), Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993), A che punto è la notte (TV movie, 1994).