Zamora
11 May 2024 | 10:30
Sala Hera — Cinema Astra
In the presence of the director
Thirty-year-old Walter Vismara likes to lead an orderly life with no surprises: an accountant in soul even before his profession, he works as an accountant in a small factory in Vigevano. From one day to the next, the factory closes, and Vismara finds himself, despite himself, catapulted into a futuristic company in bustling, industrious Milan, in the service of a modern and brilliant entrepreneur, Cavalier Tosetto. Everything would be fine except that he has a penchant for folber (football, according to a Gianni Brera neologism) and forces all his employees into weekly bachelor vs. married challenges. Walter, who considers soccer a demented sport, declares himself goalkeeper only because it is the only role he knows and does not know that from then on, in order not to lose his employment, he will be forced to participate in weekly training sessions, in preparation for the official game on May 1. He thus suffers the mockery of his colleagues; among them, engineer Gusperti sarcastically renames him “Zamora,” the phenomenal Spanish goalkeeper of the 1930s. Not only does that bauscia humiliate him on the field and bully him in the company, but there seems to be tenderness between him and Ada, the secretary with whom Walter falls in love. Feeling humiliated, betrayed on one side and mocked on the other, the accountant devises a wholly original plan for revenge, involving a now disgraced former athlete. In soccer, as indeed in life, you have to learn to jump in and even if you lose, what matters is to get back up and start again stronger than before.
Regia di Neri Marcorè
104'
Italia
2023
Diplomatosi interprete parlamentare nel 1990, Neri Marcorè inizia la sua carriera artistica professionale pochi mesi dopo, come imitatore, in programmi di lustro Rai, affiancato da grandi della tv quali Raffaella Carrà, Giancarlo Magalli, Serena Dandini. L’inizio di un percorso teatrale che non si è mai interrotto fino ai nostri giorni è datato 1993, con La finta ammalata di Goldoni. Seguono molti titoli con i quali negli anni mette in scena Pennac, Gaber, Pasolini, De André, Saviano, i Beatles, Galeano, Serra, Soriano. Il più recente è La buona novella, in tournée in questo periodo. È il conduttore di Per un pugno di libri (2001 2010, Rai3), del Concertone del Primo Maggio (2011), di Celebration (2017, Rai1) e da due stagioni di Art Night (Rai5). Da circa dieci anni si esibisce come musicista e cantante in concerti dal titolo Le mie canzoni altrui. Il primo ruolo da protagonista al cinema gli viene offerto da Pupi Avati ne Il cuore altrove (2003), col quale si aggiudica un Nastro d’argento e la candidatura ai David, replicata con La seconda notte di nozze due anni dopo. Tra i tanti film e fiction televisive di questi venti anni ricordiamo: Papa Luciani (Capitani, Rai1, 2006); Tutti pazzi per amore (Milani, Rai1, 2008-2010); Gli amici del bar Margherita (Avati, 2009); La scomparsa di Patò (Mortelliti, 2010); The tourist (Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2010); Tous les soleils (Claudel, 2011); Asterix & Obelix in the service of His Majesty (Tirard, 2012); Questo nostro amore (Ribuoli, Leoni, 2012- 2018); Mi rifaccio vivo (Rubini, 2013); Una Ferrari per due (Costa, Rai1, 2014); Smetto quando voglio – Trilogia (Sibilia, 2014/2017); Sei mai stato sulla luna? (Genovese, 2015); Leoni (Parolin, 2015); Latin lover (Comencini, 2015); Como estrellas fugaces (Di Francisca, 2017); Boys (Ferrario, 2021); Digit the secret code (Costa, Rai1, 2021); Il santone (Muscardin, Raiplay, 2022); Quando (Veltroni, 2023), I peggiori giorni (Bruno/Leo, 2023). In 2020, he was awarded the title of Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his civil commitment and for conceiving and implementing RisorgiMarche, a music, solidarity and ecological festival in support of the communities affected by the 2017 earthquake.