Gino
Peressutti
Peressutti's Cinecittà.
Europe's Biggest Film Studio
Mussolini laid the cornerstone on 29 January 1936, and 475 days later, on 28 April 1937, Cinecittà was opened: Europe’s biggest film studio, covering a total of 600,000 square metres.
The idea of building a complex of buildings for the production of films that would at the same time represent the very concept of the national film industry first arose in the United States in the late nineteen-twenties.
When the sets of Posa Cines in Via Vejo in Rome burnt down on 26 September 1935, Gino Peressutti was asked by Luigi Freddi, general director of film, and the honourable Carlo Roncoroni, owner of the Cines studio, to plan the grandiose project.
From the exhibition at Cineteca del Friuli Film Library to the bibliography.
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The importance of Peressutti’s work was underlined seventy years after his death in the 2010 exhibition held in Palazzo Elti by the Cineteca del Friuli Film Library with the City of Gemona and the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The exhibition brought together plans for the film studio complex, kindly loaned by Gregorio Belloni Peressutti and Gilberto Ganzer, films, newspaper articles, objects, books, magazines and documents, as well as posters, photographs and handbills for films made in Cinecittà or using its film development and printing workshops, sets, costumes and scenery, from the Gianni Da Campo collection.
The exhibition provided the occasion for publication of the volume entitled
L’architetto dei sogni: Gino Peressutti, da Gemona a Cinecittà.
The Civic Library of Don Valentino Baldissera in Gemona del Friuli contains numerous volumes dealing with the illustrious Gemona architect’s life and work, including G. PERESSUTTI, Album fotografico delle opere di Gino Peressutti, 1908.
Additional information may be found in the vast online dictionary of Friulian biographies (https://www.dizionariobiograficodeifriulani.it/peressutti-gino/) and Livio Jacob and Carlo Gaberscek’s volume “Il Friuli e il cinema”, published by Cineteca del Friuli Film Library.