It has been said that Bagnacavallo has a special environment and spirit in its buildings, corners and atmospheres, which make it a perfect stage for films; maybe it’s also because its town centre has kept its historical image through the centuries, and this fits well to cinema. Probably this reason has lead several filmmakers, directors and screenplayers to stage their stories and films in Bagnacavallo; some has decided to make it the main location of their films, some other just picked some special corners or atmospheres which were not able to find anywhere else.
FILMS, DIRECTORS, ACTORS AND PLACES
La neve nel bicchiere Florestano Vancini, with Massimo Ghini, Ivano Marescotti (1984)
Square of Church S. Maria del Carmine
La riffa Vittorio De Sica, the fourth episode of “Boccaccio ’70” by Federico Fellini, with Sofia Loren (1962)
Via Mazzini and Via Farini
I fuorilegge del matrimonio f.lli Taviani and Valentino Orsini, with Ugo Tognazzi (1963)
Ex-convento S. Francesco, Piazza Nuova, Via Garibaldi, Piazza della Libertà
L’Agnese va a morire tv film by Giuliano Montaldo, with Ingrid Thulin, Stefano Satta Flores, Michele Placido, Massimo Girotti, Johnny Dorelli, Eleonora Giorgi (1976)
Theatre Goldoni, Piazza della Libertà, Via Mazzini and railway station.
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football club Luigi Filippo D’Amico, with Alberto Sordi (1970)
Theatre Goldoni, Via Mazzini, Piazza della Libertà, Via Don Minzoni
Il Passatore Piero Nelli, tv film produced by Rai, with Manfred Freyberger, Tina Aumont (1977)
Theatre Goldoni, Piazza Nuova
Permette, signora, che ami vostra figlia? Gian Luigi Polidoro, with Ugo Tognazzi, (1974)
Theatre Goldoni
Agata e la tempesta Silvio Soldini, with Licia Maglietta, Emilio Solfrizzi, Marina Massironi (2004)
Via Mazzini and Via Farini
Al di là delle frontiere tv film produced by Rai, by Maurizio Zaccaro, with Sabrina Ferilli, Johannes Brandrup, Lino Capolicchio, Leo Gullotta (2004)
Theatre Goldoni, Piazza della Libertà, Castellaccio, Palace Massari and Church of S. Girolamo
Beside, in 1996, Piazza Nuova was the stage of the Dante’s readings of Inferno by Vittorio Gassman.
None of those films is actually about Bagnacavallo as the town itself, the only film which was created and written for Bagnacavallo, as the ideal place in Romagna, is La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone by Pupi Avati (1974), which was shot somewhere else and just contains the image of the town street sign with the name Bagnacavallo.
(Updated to 24/08/2023)
