How does one bring a person back to life when time has erased all traces of them, leaving only a few photographs, a five-second film clip and a few letters? Anatomy of a Portrait is an exploration that transforms absence into presence and, through an interweaving of voices and perspectives, brings to light the pioneering vision of Fernanda Wittgens: the first woman in Italy to become a museum director, a champion of art that has now been forgotten.
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Produced by: Rossofilm with Luce Cinecittà and Lab 80 Film
An Italian-Swiss co-production with: Rough Cat and RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera
With the support of: MIC – Directorate-General for Cinema and Audiovisual
Film made with the contribution of: PR FESR 2021–2027 Regione Lombardia – “Lombardia per il cinema” Call for Proposals
With the support of: the Republic and Canton of Ticino / Cantonal Film Fund
Under the patronage of: Lombardia Film Commission
Written by: Francesco Clerici, Mattia Colombo, Giulia Cosentino, Eleonora Mazzoni, Laura Sudiro
Scientific supervision by: Giovanna Ginex
Story by: Eleonora Mazzoni, Laura Sudiro
Loosely inspired by: L’allodola by Giovanna Ginex and Rosangela Percoco, published by Edizioni Salani
Starring: Sara Drago and Giovanna Ginex
Editing: Serena Pighi, with Ilaria Fraioli
Cinematography Timon De Graaf Boelè
Production Sound: Paolo Benvenuti and Manuel Paradiso
Music Supervision and Sound Post-Production: Matteo Taheri, Pastelle Music
Original Music: Alexandre Julien Maurer and Luca Fois
Sound Design: Tommaso Barbaro
Color Grading: Diego Diaz
Sound Mix: Riccardo Studer
Executive Producers: Marco Malfi Chindemi, Davide Signorelli
Development Producer: Mattia Colombo
Archive Research: Francesco Clerici
Produced by: Marco Malfi Chindemi, with Nicola Bernasconi
Associate Producer: Laura Romano
Co-produced by: Andrea Zanoli
Swiss Associate Production: Amka Films Productions – Amel Soudani
RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera Producer: Giulia Fazioli
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
Archivio Fernanda Wittgens, Fondazione Elvira Badaracco – Studi e documentazione delle donne ETS
Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Archivio Storico LUCE CINECITTÀ
RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
CINESCATTI
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
Cineteca Milano