ITALY
15 SECONDS
2008 – 35mm – colore - 11’
Soggetto e regia Subject and direction: Gianluca Petrazzi
Sceneggiatura Screenplay: Giorgio Savino
Cinematografia Cinematography: Sebastiano Bontempi
Montaggio Editing: Ugo De Rossi e Francesca Forletta
Scenografia Set design: Anna Forletta
Musica Music: Stefano Mainetti
Interpreti Cast: Raoul Bova, Enrico Lo Verso, Valerio Mastandrea, Ricky Memphis, Claudia Pandolci, Giorgio Casotti, Claudio Santamaria, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Produttori Producers: Raoul Bova, Chiara Giordano
Produzione Production: Sanmarco Film Production, piazza Adriana 5, 00193 Roma (Italia), produzioni@sanmarcofilm.it
SYNOPSIS
The short film 15 Seconds evolves around the character of James, a condemned man who is denied the chance to prove his innocence.
His story is common to that of many men and women who pass through the same ordeal.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
In the drafting of the script I privileged an intimate, subjective perspective. I tried as far as possible to immerse myself in such a tragic situation, a situation in which no one whether guilty or innocent should ever find himself. I tried to explore those different and alternating states of the soul; fear, love, compassion, and the internal chaos of the condemned and of the spectators present at the execution. Those minutes just before the final act where past and present lose their significance and are replaced by “a time” which is conditioned and measured only by the law. I wanted also to lay emphasis on the absurd fact of “knowing your hour” surrounded by the material executioners and the witnesses who , with their silence and indifference become in turn the accomplices of what is happening.
