Sky Arte Documentary Honors Remo Remotti on Anniversary of His Death

On June 21, 2018, Sky Arte HD will air the documentary "Ho rubato la marmellata ‒ Vita di un artista politicamente scorretto" directed by Gioia Magrini and Roberto Meddi. The film explores the life of Remo Remotti, an Italian artist who defied easy labels and conventions, working across painting, music, cinema, literature, theater, and performance. It draws on Meddi's archival documentation, Istituto Luce materials, and interviews with writer Michele Serra, critic Gianluca Marziani, playwright Giampiero Solari, actor-director Massimiliano Bruno, Remotti's wife Luisa Pistoia, and his daughter Federica. Remotti recounts his childhood in fascist-era Rome, his widowed mother's desire for him to become a lawyer, his escape to Peru disillusioned with bourgeois Rome in the 1950s, his discovery of art, his experience in 1968 Berlin student protests, stays in mental hospitals, his love for women, his acting career starting in theater with friend Renato Mambor and later in films by Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti, and Francis Ford Coppola, and his ambivalent relationship with Rome, which inspired his famous poetic invective "Mamma Roma addio" listing the city's flaws in the 1950s.