Giovanni Totaro: “Only Tony had experience in acting”

Monday, April 9

Giovanni Totaro: “Only Tony had experience in acting”

Italian director Giovanni Totaro was with us at Cinemaximum City’s Nişantaşı for the screening of his film Happy Winter from the section of “Documentary Time with NTV”. Sharing that he stayed two years on the beach where he shot the film and began to do auditions with the people he met, Totaro said that among the cast only Tony had experience in acting and that he examined directors who work with amateur actors: “At the Mondello beach in Palermo, each year a thousand beach huts are built for vacationers. People from Mondello have been renting those huts for their summer vacation for centuries. This used to be Italians’ holiday concept all over the country. But a decision has been made to remove these huts in 2020. Even though in the film the idea is that “we should keep having fun,” these beaches were the ideal spots to relay the social and political events. The title of the film was inspired by what people say to each other when they start going back home because they won’t see each other for another year: ‘Happy Winter’.”

Photo: Benek Özmez

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