Introduction
Giò Stajano's secret to facing life in the best way, or worst, depending on your point of view, was and is that of never taking himself too seriously.
Synopsis
The very fact that he was born gay in a small town in the deep South, during the height of Fascism, and in the Storace household, choosing as his mother the unsuspecting daughter of the Duce's "very virile" right-hand man, and then urinating in his arms at the tender age of one, speaks volumes. Then, in the 50s, a young man of great promise, he arrived in Rome. With his unconventional lifestyle and his book, Roma capitolina, about "excellent" homosexuality in Rome, which was immediately confiscated, he became a "character" and was called by Fellini to play himself in the film La Dolce Vita.
Then suddenly in 81, after having worked as a hard-hitting journalist, having continued to write books and act in films, tired of this role, he flies to Casablanca, and becomes Maria Gioacchina, thus confirming his innate tendency to provoke and mock life and himself.
Film info
Performer: Giò Stajano
Screenplay: Ottavio Mai, Giovanni Minerba, Giò Stajano
Photography: Ottavio Mai
Editing: Ottavio Mai, Giovanni Minerba, Simone Fava
Comics: Marco Silombria
Festival
Gallery
Turin Film Festival – the selection of Streeen
Lucus a lucendo
Uppercut Sonata
Now I know Snow
Where everything is
The "cool" of the regime
I would do it again tomorrow
Maximum respect
Reflections on the big toe
Two or three things
Timeless
I was making nugatine
Before Berlusconi
The fighter
The World of Luigi Ghirri
Erri De Luca after Genoa
Zone 18 Limon, Guatemala
Octavio Mario Mai
Requiem
Miss Effe
Rata neće biti (There will be no war)
We are not like James Bond
Sanperè
Without asking permission
The body of the duce
Something About Us
ANAPESON
Walking with Red Rhino
Here
Gipo, the gypsy of Barriera
The cinema of Ottavio Mai
Octavio Mario Mai
Pride 80
From Piero's life
Message
I'm not like you
INFECTED BY EVIL
Beware of truck drivers
The prey
I will never be more alive than this
Prelude
The staticity of a body
Tea for two
Epitaphs
From Sodom to Hollywood
Partners
Fiction
The "cool" of the regime
Orpheus, the day before
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Porpora
Zen on thin ice
Stolen Kisses