(2023, Italia, 97')
Physician first, artist second, as he loved to point out, Enzo Jannacci accompanied the history of Italian pop music with overwhelming originality. Jannacci worked with Giorgio Gaber, Cochi e Renato, and showed the world the face of a growing, buzzling Milan thanks to explosive musical intuitions. Jannacci was a real pioneer. Archive footage and interviews with personalities of the contemporary musical scene tell the story of a character to whom Italian theater, television, and music owe so much.
Giorgio Verdelli presented at Venice Paolo Conte – Via con me in 2020 and Ezio Bosso – Le cose che restano in 2021. He is an author, director, and producer of documentaries and musical programmes and an internationally-recognized music expert. Verdelli curated the soundtrack for Nanni Loy’s Mi manda Picone (1984) and was an author for late-night Italian TV show Quelli della notte back in the mid-Eighties. He received a special mention at the Bruce Chatwin Prize in 2003 for his documentary Le strade dell’anima, a journey to discover the roots of American pop, rock, blues, and soul.
