Grandi speranze

Ähnlich wie der Waisenjunge Pip in Charles Dickens’ Klassiker, von dem sich der Film den Titel borgt, ziehen drei italienische Jungunternehmer in die Welt, um ihr Glück auf die Probe zu stellen. Etwa den Konsummarkt von Shanghai mit abgefülltem Sprudelwasser zu fluten, was der enthusiastische Entrepreneur auch selbst mit wackeliger Handkamera und legerem Off-Kommentar dokumentiert. In drei Kapiteln erzählt dieser Film von Management-Floskeln, Boss-Attitüden und dem eurozentristischen Überlegenheitsgen. Man zitiert Shaw, Seneca und Dante. Die einzige Frau, die nicht nur als Statistin auftritt, lehrt Manager die Körpersprache des Erfolges. (Anna Katharina Laggner)

In Anwesenheit von Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti.

Maintaining the light-hearted approach of I PROMESSI SPOSI (2007), Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti’s GRANDI SPERANZE offers a triptych portrait of entrepreneurs leading Italy into the future by looking to the East. Each ambitious and distinct in personality, they display various levels of determination and competency to realise their ventures. First, the film follows Antonio Ambrosetti, the founder of an entrepreneurship programme. In addition to guiding his students through quotes by Dante and Seneca, he plans a trip to China to develop a “multinational perspective”. Then there’s Federcio Morgantini, a hopeful young man who moved to Shanghai to revolutionise the beverage industry, intent on introducing sparkling water of European quality to the luxury Chinese market. Gazing out from a skyscraper, he sees millions of potential customers and exclaims, “Hang on, China! It’ll be me who quenches your thirst!” Finally, we meet Matteo Storchi, a short-tempered industrialist aspiring to thrive in China who can’t seem to communicate orders to his colleagues. If the 21st century is the Chinese century, GRANDI SPERANZE captures the beginning of this transition, chronicling the efforts of visionaries who were perhaps ahead of their time. (Winnie Wang)

Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti (Auswahl): I PROMESSI SPOSI (2007), GRANDI SPERANZE (2009), IL CASTELLO (2011), MATERIA OSCURA (2013), L’INFINITA FABBRICA DEL DUOMO (2015), SPIRA MIRABILIS (2016), BLU (2018, K), GUERRA E PACE (2020), UNA GIORNATA NELL’ARCHIVIO DI PIERO BOTTONI (2022, K), BESTIARI, ERBARI, LAPIDARI (2024)