FABRIZIO GIFUNI - ΙΤΑLY

Fabrizio Gifuni was born in 1966. After graduating from the "Silvio D'Amico" National Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his stage debut in 1993 as Orestes in Euripides' Electra, directed by Massimo Castri.

Giancarlo Sepe directed Gifuni in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Theodoros Terzopoulos directed him in Sophocles' Antigone which was presented in Epidaurus and then toured China, Japan and Korea. Fabrizio Gifuni made his film debut in 1996 in Anna Di Francisca's La Bruttina Stagionata. He went on to work with Gianni Amelio in Cosi ridevano, which won the Golden Lion in Venice in 1998, Hannibal by Ridley Scott, L'amore probabilmente by Giuseppe Bertolucci, and recently with Nina Di Majo on L'inverno.

SOLE NEGLI OCCHI / EMPTY EYES
35mm colour 90'
Directed by Andrea Porporati
Produced by Sorpasso Film


Marco (Fabrizio Gifuni) murders his father. It is one of the many unexplainable crimes that the press attributes to a "raptus of madness". Marco's life was very similar to many others, in the prosperity of northern Italy. Yet there is a fracture in him, kept under the surface of normality. An apparently unexplainable hate for his father, growing day by day, year after year, that explodes in murder.
After the murder, Marco finds refuge in a seaside area, in a small hotel, amongst the tourists on holiday.
That is where Rinaldi finds him, a policeman who suspects him, yet he realises that this isn't an ordinary criminal; he is a young man afflicted with a drama that overwhelms him, a shock that he had in the past, that changed him and in a certain sense used him, pushing him into the crime.
But fate would have it that in the room next to Marco's, a young adolescent girl is going through her first love and will never know that the young man next door is a murderer. That small impossible sentiment, so slight and destructive is irresistible to Marco. It is the beginning of a deep crisis, the chance to open his eyes to the real reasons that led him to murder, reasons that were unknown even to himself and are embedded in his personality and his past. It is the breaking out of that zone of shadows that is deep down inside each one of us. The mystery of the banality of evil.