Il Palazzo

The protagonist of this film is a building. Standing on the perimeter of Rome like a monolith in the open countryside is a municipal housing complex from the seventies: Corviale. This ravaged concrete structure, which stretches for over a kilometre, has become the embodiment of a failed utopia from an urban planner’s drawing board. Designed as a self-sufficient city, for decades this palazzo (ital.: "building") has largely been left to the devices of its eight thousand residents.
The film interweaves the vistas of this fascinating architectural monstrosity with the ways the inhabitants see their living space. As if the building...

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Orig. Title
Il Palazzo
Year
2006
Countries
Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration
45 min
Director
Katharina Copony
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
Italian
Subtitles
English
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