1963. Vittorio Gassman hosannas that Pedro 'Big Foot' Manfredini, historical Roma striker from 1959 to 1965. Legendary film Dino Risi Monsters . Because football is always a mixed blessing of Italy, the only nation with 60 million coaches. However, despite the passions and clamor, the film rarely has effectively represented the world of football.
1987. Pupi Avati is fresh from the success of Christmas gift and decided to completely change log. The author of Bologna has always dealt with all genres: the horror masterpiece The house from the windows and laughing Zeder, the grotesque comedy the mazurka with the Baron, of the holy and the fig and Boron Bordella , his passion for jazz with Jazz Band. In 1986, works with sports journalists Italo Cucci and Michele Plastino and realizes Last minute . One of the few films about football, perhaps the only film about football that can anticipate the scandals, the background, the truth, the squalor of the sport most loved by Italians.
protagonist of the film is an extraordinary Ugo Tognazzi , in the guise of Walter Ferroni, sports director of a small provincial team that survives the economic pitfalls of Serie A. The new President Di Carlo (played by Lino Capolicchio face offline) brings a new management, more open-minded, that does not include Ferroni methods. Which is removed from society, while continuing to follow it. The changes of direction, coaches, players do not bring results, indeed. The Presidency recalls the old director, hoping for a miraculous salvation. That comes just at the last minute, thanks to goals from Paul Tassoni young boy discovered by the observer of Spring Duccio (Abatantuono Diego, launched his dramatic career by Avati in Christmas gift) and brought into the field instead of Captain Woods (Massimo Bonetti), fell into the vortex of football betting and now invisible in the eyes of Martha, daughter of Ferroni love with him (a young Elena Sofia Ricci).
The so-called dome Moggi and the referees is still a long way complacent. The games are displayed little Avati, so that is not mentioned at the city's team on the field, although the color of red and white jersey stadium clearly indicate Vicenza. The action is all in the gestures of Ferroni: a life dedicated to football, to work with. The wounds of the ball is alive and pulsating, the melancholy typical of Avati film cloaked in the murky atmosphere of football in the province, between coaches and players unable sold, innocence and immorality. Before the large capital purchases madness, IPOs, there could still be possible to manage a team in Serie A with coins and methods almost amateurish. All members of the football thrown into the fray, including prosecutors, fans, journalists. In this sense, bring to the screen Aldo Biscardi also knows a lot of foresight for what will be the future of our football.
The film was a commercial flop, to testify to the difficulty of the cinema - especially Italian - to represent football. However Last minute film is left in the hearts and minds of sports fans and cinema. Accomplices also the music of Riz Ortolani and a lucid writer and nostalgic. As stated by Italo Cucci, the character of Walter Ferroni was inspired "in part to the figure of Italo Allodi and partly to the first of Luciano Moggi. Sign of a shady dealer and businessman calcium, which changes remains equal to itself.
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