THE PATHS OF GLORY. A VOYAGE WITH MARIO MONICELLI TO THE SITES OF THE GREAT WAR

by Gloria De Antoni
43’, Italy, 2005

Shot when the director of La Grande Guerra was almost ninety, I sentieri della gloria pays homage to Mario Monicelli. The reportage is constructed on two levels. Sitting in front of a moviola, Monicelli watches and comments on the films from his trip-pilgrimage in the summer of 2004 to the sites where in 1959 he filmed La Grande Guerra. This return to the old locations (Gemona, Venzone, Palmanova) was also the occasion to encounter, between the piazzas and osterias, the now-elderly extras.
 

Gloria De Antoni Gloria De Antoni, born in Udine, lives between Rome and Spilimbergo. With a degree from DAMS in Bologna, she has worked in film and theatre and collaborated with newspapers and magazines, among these Paese sera and Il Corriere della sera. Since 1981 she has collaborated with RAI as a program developer, editor, and reporter. She is the editor of literary collections and author and director for the Cineteca del Friuli.