Marcello Baldis Osiride

The documentary moves around the amazing figure of Osiride Pevarello a circus performer with a very long career in cinema from Lattuada to Germi from BenHur to Fellini up to Tinto Brass In this exquisitely lively and unexpectedly dense short film Osiride faces the world by showing off confident steps and assertive vocation as if he had everything under control and it was not necessary to demand more Until the beautiful ending when the voices of the sleeping boys give shape to a desire to have a home Osiride lying on the bed smoking his umpteenth cigarette as always he cannot sleep before the return of his eighteenyearold daughter who works under mistress in a dartboard We discover the melancholy of a man who would like to leave from there to find four real walls for his family The camera moves to let us glimpse the popes image on the dresser one should have faith in miracles