Genre Documentary
Director Domenico Procacci
Country, yearItaliana, 2022
Runtime 88'
Production Fandango Spa - Cinecitta' Spa
Release date 2022
Status Pronto
Cinecittà rights Theatrical Italy, International rights sales, Domestic rights sales, Co-production
Documentary
Una squadra
A Team – From 1976 to 1980 Italy is the team to beat. Let’s talk about tennis and the trophy you fight for is the Davis Cup. The team consists of four players, four champions: Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci, Adriano Panatta, Tonino Zugarelli. In those five years they reached the final four times, winning only in ’76 against Chile. The finals reached but then lost are in ’77 against Australia, in ’79 against the USA and in ’80 against Czechoslovakia. In ’76 and ’77 the team has as non-player captain a legend of Italian tennis, Nicola Pietrangeli, who retired from competitive activity only a few years ago. Pietrangeli will be exonerated from his players after the defeat of ’77 in Australia. He considers it the greatest betrayal suffered in his life. The docuseries tells a team sometimes divided, fragmented, with within it difficult, conflicting relationships, both between the players and with those who guide and train them. A team, a national team, which when it has victory at hand is opposed and fought in its own country. And despite all this, in those years the strongest team in the world. The Sky Original docuseries will be broadcast on Sky Documentaries; the preview for the cinema tells some of the funniest and most exciting episodes of the series. In particular, it focuses on one of the four finals, the one played in ’76 against Pinochet’s Chile and for this reason at the center of a fierce political battle. A victory, which even today, 122 years after the birth of the Davis Cup, remains the only Italian victory.
Festival
Annecy Cinema Italien 2022: Projections Spéciales
Cast
Adriano Panatta
Corrado Barazzutti
Nicola Pietrangeli
Paolo Bertolucci
Tonino Zugarelli