The Region Marche is multi-colored from an environmental point of view, even though through the years it was unfairly almost completely ignored by arts, literature and mostly by the movies, since other places were chosen. In common belief it is deeply known this concept, even if it is not actually true: there were some very important film directors who fell immediately in love with the landscapes of the Region Marche and wrote screenplays getting inspiration by the hills, seaside and beauty of the Marche.
Maybe not everybody knows that the movie “Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita)” – directed by Mario Monicelli and based on a treatment (i.e. the script that comes before the final screenplay) written by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, and support by Pier Paolo Pasolini – has a struggling story that begins in the Region Marche. Fellini, who sold the subject to Monicelli, said in an interview: <<if there’s something I regret, it must be not making that movie myself>>. What is more interesting is that he was inspired during a trip after his father’s passed away and in that screenplay you can see the essence of the hills of the Region Marche, marvelous places like the Gola del Furlo and relevant cities like Fano, that in the idea of the director it represented Rimini in his childhood. Looking back maybe this movie could change the destiny of the Region Marche in the movies, a revolution in everybody’s common belief.
Others were big acknowledgments (often forgotten): the main city of the Marche, Ancona, was main character of many Italian movies, for instance in Luchino Visconti’s “Ossessione” in 1943 and more recently in 2001 in Nanni Moretti’s drama “The Son’s Room (La stanza del figlio)”.
The hills near Macerata from the terrace of the Casale Villa Claire
A borgo to be restored sets in Cingoli countryside
Marche is a region with a strong attitude and polyhedral landscapes: countryside. Hills, mountains, sea, rivers, towns, city…each one is typical of the only Italian region “in plural” (i.e. Marche is plural of Marca – the old March, a border territory). Many film-makers love this peculiar plurality and though Fellini did not make his movie himself, his choice to represent the main places of the Region Marche really makes us all very proud.
Casale del Morro, surrounded by vineyards and the beautiful Marche countryside close to Morro D’Alba
