Enzo Jannacci vengo anch’io

A man of huge and unsettling talent, Enzo Jannacci steered a course between many different genres because he was a “genre” in his own right. In the Milan of the 1960s, Jannacci chose to sing about the outcasts of society and succeeded in reviving and rejuvenating the tradition of Milanese popular song, partly through his collaboration with people like Dario Fo, Giorgio Strehler, and Fiorenzo Carpi. This marked artistic and human sensibility of his found expression over the years in a constant linguistic and musical inventiveness that allowed him to move in masterly fashion between songwriting and cabaret, rock ’n’ roll and jazz, theatre, and cinema. In this film we are transported, aboard an old tram, on a journey through a timeless Milan that paints, through a vast repertoire of often previously unheard recordings and prestigious testimonies of friends and colleagues—from his son Paolo to Vasco Rossi, and then Paolo Conte, Claudio Bisio, Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Vecchioni, and many others—a surprising portrait of an extraordinary artist.

Enzo Jannacci vengo anch’io is not a biography of Enzo Jannacci, but an exploration of his world together with his friends and “pupils” from several different generations. Jannacci the artist was inseparable from Jannacci the man, from the genius whose capacity for synthesis and invention never ceased to amaze and move us. We miss Jannacci. We miss his wacky and intelligent smile, his ability to sum up a world in a word, wrapping it in a “Because I said so.” Much of this will be in the film, and much will not, for Jannacci’s output was immense, but it will certainly get as far as that line “Those who work as a team, convinced they are hired by another company.”

PRODUCTION 1: Silvia Fiorani, Giorgio Verdelli – Sudovest Produzioni
Via Teulada, 52
00195 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0639754354
sudovestproduzioni@libero,it
http://www.sudovestproduzioni.com

PRODUCTION 2: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri – Indigo Film
Via Torino, 135
00184 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0677250255
info@indigofilm.it
http://www.indigofilm.it

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Medusa Film S.p.A.
Viale Aventino, 26
00153 – Roma, Italia
info@medusa.it
Tel. +39 06663901

ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE: Pamela Maffioli – Zebaki Comunicazione
Via San Gregorio, 55
20124 – Milano, Italia
Tel. +39 3387368361
pamela.maffioli@zebaki.it