ITALY

DA DO DA

1994 –colore – 83’

Direction: Nico Cirasola

Screenplay: Nico Cirasola, Elia Canestrari, Lucia Diroma, Vittorino Curci

Cinematography: Emilio Della Chiesa

Editing: Alessandra Consoli

Set design: Elia Canestrari

Music: Nino Lepore

Costumes: Anna Caradonna

Cast: Totò Onnis (Demigod), Gilla Novak (Juno), Donato Castellaneta (Jupiter), Frank Lino (Eros), Gianni Colajemma (president), Vittorino Curci (saxophonist), Max Delgado (Adonis), Diego Verdegiglio (Mercury), Umberto Sardella

Producer: Nico Cirasola

Production: Mediterranea Film

synopsis

Olympian gods do exist and repeat their earthly adventures every hundred years by taking on human form. Nemo, a wandering demigod informs the gods about earthly happenings and tells Jupiter about a very beautiful new goddess: the Statue of Liberty. Fascinated by the tale, the king of Olympus is convinced that this goddess is none other than a former love, Asteria who disappeared in the ocean depths. He disguises himself as an acrobat and appears among the humans. Jealous of Jupiter’s new love, Juno convinces those closest to Olympus, the Apulian people, to kidnap the goddess. She disappears from Liberty Island, leaving behind a perplex humanity. Thus begins a carousel of paradoxical situations, in which the gods, in their most diverse human guise, live out their adventure between myth and symbols.

critical note

“(…) an enthusiast of nonsense not far from Benigni, a champion of a modern southern Italian lifestyle like Arbore, heir to a sensibility that cinema has portrayed from I Vitelloni to The Lizards.” (Paolo D’Agostini, La Repubblica)

festival

1994 Mostra di Venezia – Salon des Refusés

1994 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Chang Sha, China