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Sog., Scen.: Arrigo Frusta. Int.: Ernesto Vaser (il protagonista), Ercole Vaser (fattorino), Mario Voller Buzzi , Serafino Vité (due avventori del caffè). Prod.: S.A. Ambrosio. 35mm. L.: 104 m (l. orig.: 125 m). D.: 6′ a 18 f/s Bn
Edition History
A race against time, literally. Here obsession lurks in the symbolic places of the bourgeois social ritual: the living room, the cafe and the barber. It is New Year’s Eve 1910. The repetition of holiday wishes and calendar offers exasperates Ernesto Vaser to madness. He hits whoever is in range, runs away and fidgets about. He ends up in jail. But time does not stop and chases us everywhere. Even in a spartan cell, in a pre-ending with a surrealist feel. Almanacs multiply in a frenetic dance. The moon winks.
Restoration credits
Restored by EYE Filmmuseum from a nitrate print (The Desmet Collection) at Hegefilm laboratory. Print acquired by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 1994
The last film of the 1909 programme becomes the first of the 2010 festival! It was probably made as a New Year’s greeting and so had a short screen lifespan.
