The Adventure of the Cinematograph with Corrado Alvaro, Wednesday, July 23, 2025 in Cropani Marina: Raffaele Mercurio, Eugenio Attanasio, Marcello Furriolo, Luigi Stanizzi, Domenico Levato
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At the "Lido Levato" in Cropani Marina, in the province of Catanzaro, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at 7:45 pm, presentation of the volume "The Adventure of the Cinematograph with Corrado Alvaro / Film Novels 1936/1950", published by the Cineteca della Calabria, with the extraordinary participation of professional journalist Luigi Stanizzi who introduces and moderates, the mayor of Cropani Raffaele Mercurio president of the municipal library "Saverio Grande" of Cropani who supports the cultural initiative, film director Eugenio Attanasio curator of the work, intellectual and writer Marcello Furriolo former mayor of Catanzaro, and Domenico Levato doctor lent to culture.
The volume is an elegant publication that collects a series of film novels taken from films to which the writer from San Luca collaborated, who had an intense career as a screenwriter and film critic. The event represents an important opportunity to rediscover and enhance the figure of the writer from San Luca and his important contribution to the world of Italian cinema, in a very flourishing period thanks to interventions desired by the regime. The promotion of the event, which will cross the borders of Italy and Europe, is entrusted to journalist and performance organizer Francesco Stanizzi. Far from being exhaustive about Alvaro's complex and varied activity as a screenwriter, from the first film L’angelo ferito through the more famous ones Casta Diva, Noi Vivi, Caccia Tragica, Riso Amaro, there are as many as twenty-seven films written by Alvaro that have contributed to the history of Italian cinema. The literary matrix is evident in Alvaro who works on the cinematographic side, not only when he personally creates the subjects and screenplays but also when he reworks in whole or in part literary texts by other authors, who - mind you - are intellectuals of international stature: Terra di nessuno, screenplay by Alvaro and Stefano Landi is taken from two distinct short stories by Pirandello, Dove Romolo edificò and Requiem aeternam dona eis domine; Noi vivi and Addio Kira from the novel by Ayn Rand; Carmela directed by Flavio Calzavara from the short story of the same name by Edmondo De Amicis; Una donna tra due mondi by Goffredo Alessandrini is taken from a novel by Ludwig von Wohl; Resurrezione of 1944 directed by Flavio Calzavara is a film adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy, the diary of a beloved woman directed by the German Kosterlitz refers to Maupassant; Storia di una capinera made by Gennaro Righelli is structured on a subject taken from the well-known novel by Giovanni Verga; L’albero di Adamo by Mario Bonnard, is made from a subject taken from the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni; Una notte dopo l'opera he is called as a screenwriter together with another Calabrian, Raul Maria De Angelis; in Solitudine, by Livio Pavanelli, he works in collaboration. For other films, however, Alvaro's participation is as an original subject writer, and these are Febbre by Primo Zeglio and Donne senza nome by Géza von Radványi. Casta Diva by Carmine Gallone, instead, belongs to the so-called operatic genre and refers to the famous aria from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini and the sentimental events of the composer from Catania. Alvaro as a screenwriter with his activity shows that he participates intensely in that cinema of new trends, advocated in Italy by Emilio Cecchi and in fact the screenplays of the time, entrusted to writers of great stature, are much more accurate and rich in fine psychological notes; the landscape, until then neglected, gains a prominent role and a new language is established in the cinematographic show. Director Eugenio Attanasio, always an architect and promoter of the culture of the Middle Ionian, strongly wants to present this volume precisely in Cropani, where in the past he has donated and still continues to donate his precious professional contribution and love for spreading the works of Alfonso Dolce, Father Remigio Le Pera, Antonello Stanizzi, Concetta Basile, Father Giovanni Fiore, Blessed Paolo D'Ambrosio, Serafino Schipani and many other personalities, who have also aroused the sensitive artistic and cultural interest of the attentive sculptor Luigi Verrino, who with his prestigious bronze works hands down to the centuries to come, and perhaps for eternity, figures sculpted in the history of this very rich territory such as Giuditta Levato, Vittorio De Seta, Mimmo Rotella just to name a few. Or the wonderful venerated Madonna di Porto Salvo protector of sailors who will be placed at the Port of Catanzaro Lido, or the realistic and at the same time evocative one of the late Giovanni Procopio son of the Grand Officer Commander Giuseppe Procopio of Sellia Marina, who has so generously donated in favor of the Church in these territories.