L’ENTRATA IN GUERRA
Roland Sejko, 2014, 10’
“June 10, 1940 was a cloudy day. It was known that Mussolini would speak in the afternoon, but it was not clear whether we would go to war or not.” The waiting, the uncertainty, the restlessness, the sense of strangeness and the irruption of events in Italo Calvino’s autobiographical story.
Roland Sejko (b. 1968, Albania) director, works for Cinecittà where he is currently director of the editorial department of the Luce Archive. He has written and directed several documentaries distinguished mostly by the reuse of archive cinema. He won the David di Donatello Award with his documentary “Anija / La nave”. His latest film “The Image Machine of Alfredo C.” was presented in the official selection at the 78th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti Extra Competition, and won the Nastro d’Argento as Best Docufilm. He is the artistic curator and author of the films of numerous exhibitions at the Istituto Luce and Cinecittà