A poetic documentary by FABRICE PINTE , winner of the RAI Prize 1975
The author is a young producer for Radio France and a poet. When he returned to Paris after wandering around the world he made his home in a disused shop in one of the small streets of Montmartre. Gradually he learnt that the previous inhabitant of his quarters had been an Italian who died many years previously under mysterious circumstances.
This programme Is a montage of the voices of the people who knew the Italian of the rue des Cloys and Fabrice Pinte 's poetic meditations on the evanescence of human personality and existence.
This is the original programme in French. It is introduced by MARTIN ESSLlN. Who was the Chairman of the Italia Prize Jury 1975 in Florence, where it was awarded the RAI prize for special qualities of originality and inventiveness in production techniques.