What’s left?

A film by Donato Rotunno, 2024
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Genre: Documentary

Languages: Italian, French, Luxembourgish, German

Subtitles: English, French or Italian

Format: HD

Sound: 5.1

Duration: 75 min

Country: Luxembourg

Year: 2024

PRESS KIT

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Presskit to download

SYNOPSIS

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On the eve of their building’s destruction after more than 50 years, how did the Cercle Culturel Curiel and its trattoria, come to have a major influence on the political and cultural life of Luxembourg?

 

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In the house located at 107 Route d’Esch, the Circolo Eugenio Curiel association finds themselves in a pickle. The Luxembourgish headquarters of the Italian Communist Party – which ceased to exist in 1991 to form the Social-Democratic Party, was targeted by the real estate projects spreading all over the capital. The building was destroyed at the beginning of 2024.

 

Architecturally speaking, the building was nothing out of the ordinary. Yet, since the Circolo acquired it in 1978, it made the days of several Luxembourgish political organizations and other associations. Meeting rooms and the trattoria are both part of a memorial in the hearts of the Left Parties.

 

Keeping a trace means above all talking about the birth of a cultural cradle for Luxembourg, the result of which surrounds us and feeds us unconsciously today. Public figures, economic players, representatives of the cultural world, many of them have nourished themselves intellectually and physically in this unlikely place. The relationship between activism and cuisine has been the hallmark of the place. A balance between head and belly.

CREDITS

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Director: Donato Rotunno

DOP: Amandine Klee / Carlo Thiel

Decors: Audrey Dhyvert

Light: Helder Loureiro Alves Da Silva

Make-up: Katja Alexis

Sound: Céline Bodson / Arnaud Mellet / Gabriel Ohresser

Editing: Felix Sorger

Sound editing: Ingo Dumlich

Re-recording mixer: Mike Butcher

Grading: Raoul Nadalet

 

Speakers: Franco Barilozzi, Corinne Cahen, Maria Luisa Caldognetto, Remo Ceccarelli, Milena Crespi, Mars Di Bartolomeo, Mauro Doro, Giovanni Grilli, Alexis Juncosa, Luc Koedinger, Enrico Lunghi, Marcello Passeri, Umberto Picariello, Maria Grazia Puglisi, Paca Rimbau, Samir, Roberto Serra, Sandro Testi, Claude Turmes, David Wagner.

 

A film produced by Tarantula Luxembourg with the support of Film Fund Luxembourg and with the participation of Circolo Eugenio Curiel.

GALLERY

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LFAG_003 - Le 107 route d’Esch à Luxembourg
LFAG_001 - Circolo Curiel
LFAG_002 - Circolo Curiel
LFAG_004 - Corinne Cahen
LFAG_005 - David Wagner
LFAG_006 - Les Saltimbocca del Circolo
LFAG_007 - Paca Rimbau Hernandez
LFAG_008 - Claude Turmes

FESTIVALS

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Festival du film italien de Villerupt (France)

Politik - Rencontres internationales du film politique de Liège (Belgium)

DIRECTOR

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Donato Rotunno was born in Luxembourg in 1966 and gratuated from IAD in Belgium in 1992. He founded Tarantula Luxembourg in 1995, through which, to date, he has produced over 50 feature films. His career as a film director started with his graduation film Nebbiolo Rosso and continued with documentaries on specific themes to Luxembourg, including immigration (Terra Mia Terra NostraLes Mesures du rectangle), multi cultural society (Blà Blä Blá) ; questionning the role of politics with André et les voix dissidentes, and the relationship between contemporary art and film through Making of a pictureLandscape with a corpseDreams have a language. His first fiction film, In a Dark Place, won the award for best artistic contribution at the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis in 2007. His second film, Baby(a)lone, an adaptation of the novel “Amok” by Tullio Forgiarini, was selected in many international film festivals and was chosen to represent Luxembourg at the 88th Academy Awards for Best International feature film award. Io sto bene, his 3rd feature had its world premiere at the Alice nella cita Festival in Rome in 2020 and was also chosen to represent Luxembourg at the Academy Awards for Best International feature film in 2021. Today, he returns to documentary with What’s left? to look at the Cercle Culturel Curiel and its influence on the political and cultural life in Luxembourg.

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