San Marino. “Fiori di Baggio”: shooting of the film on the Titan
San Marino is one of the locations chosen for the filming of Federico Rizzo’s film “Fiori di Baggio”.
“The film – explains a press release – tells the journey / escape of Andrea, played by the eighteen-year-old Matilde Porta and of Aluione Badiane in the role of Alì, from the Milanese hinterland to Tuscany. On their way they stop in San Marino and today (22 January) the troupe has completed the shooting of the stop of the two protagonists on the summit of the Titano. After the exteriors shot along the Passo delle Streghe, cameras in action in the heart of the historic center inside the Antica Trattoria Jole, by Mara Verbena.
Here the cameo of Maurizio Ferrini, in the guise of the host of the restaurant, ready by the guests and to tell the two young people on the run recipes and dishes of the local cuisine, offering them and the spectators a short break in the emotional tension of the narration.
The film scheduled for next summer in the cinematic sale and in the selection among the works destined for the billboards of the major Italian and international film festivals, in fact starts from a multi-ethnic Baggio where the ways of being, hopes and aspirations of young people, when and if there are , they clash with marginality, the underworld and a clash between culture and ways of being distant and difficult to integrate. Among the interpreters also Giuseppe Romanelli, known by San Marino as the Apulian nursery owner of the millenary olive tree, who remained for three years on the slopes of the Titan and became the symbol of Florea, the exhibition on flowers and nature created by Mara Verbena, and today in the unusual role of dramatic actor “.