Lost in the dark (2008)
30’

Director: Gianluca Donati
Animation: Luigi Ricca
D.O.P: Sabina Bologna
Sound: Francesco De Marco
Music: Francesco Busacchi
Production manager: Chiara Scardamaglia

Guests: Sebastiano Gesù, Sarah Zappulla Muscarà, Alfredo Baldi, Giampaolo Brunetta.

Nino Martoglio was a playwriter, but also a director. The film concerns his forgotten cinematographic production and in particular the peculiar story of the film "Lost in the dark" that was stolen by the German Army in the Italian Cinetheque during the second world war and misteriously never more found. The documentary film tell this story and the possible relationships between the Martoglio's film and the birth of the Italian neorealism. The documentary was mainly shot in the historical part of Catania with super 8 film to provide the early 900 century atmospheres. Animation inserts provide the viewer the plot of the lost film.