Digitmovies is glad to remember the very
great Alberto Sordi by releasing for the very first time on
CD in full stereo the OST by Piero Piccioni for the movie
Finchè C'è guerra C'è Speranza directed
by and starring Alberto Sordi with Silvia Monti, Alessandro
Cutolo, Matilde Costa Giuffrida, Edoardo Faceta,Mauro Firmani,
Eliana De Santis, Fernando Daviddi.
Pietro Chiocca (Sordi) is a water pumps dealer who succeeds
in improving his standard of living by devoting himself to
a more lucrative business, the one of weapons and so he spends
his own life touring the countries of the third world, mangled
by civil wars, while his family lives in luxury in a new villa
to which the family has just moved away.
All is going very well until one day a journalist of the Corriere
della Sera, who gave him the contact to sell the weapons to
a national liberation movement in Angola, in public denounces
Chiocca's actions with an article titled I Have Met A Death
Merchant.
Wife and sons show all their contempt, but then presented
with the alternative to dispense with the comforts and luxuries
they are now accustomed to, they will prefer to keep on pretending
to not knowing anything about the source of the family father's
money.
Piero Piccioni has written one of his nicest OSTs with ethnic
colours from Africa and from Latin America:
It was indeed for this movie that the composer has written
a theme which has become the one among many that identifies
the comical, but also nostalgic figure of Alberto Sordi: Rugido
Do Leao, a sparkling samba the actor-director wanted to be
re-used as main title for the very popular TV program Story
Of An Italian conceived, realized and hosted by Sordi himself,
containing selected scenes from his movies and broadcasted
during four seasons between 1979 and 1986.
For this CD we could use the first generation stereo master
tape assembled for the original album issued in 1974 which
in fact contains all the music recorded for the movie and
we were able to discover three unreleased versions of Rugido
Do Leao which brings our CD to a total duration of 41:00. |
