31/03/2005 - After the adventure Casomai, Fabio Volo goes back to the screen under the direction of Alessandro D'Alatri. The original TV presenter and successful writer plays the victim of mobbing

After the adventure Casomai was, Fabio Volo goes back to the screen. Under the direction of Alessandro D'Alatri, the original TV presenter and successful writer plays, in La febbre , a young geometer who, while trying to open a bar with his friends, ends up accepting a stable position offered by the City Hall, and becomes the victim of constant mobbing from his superior.

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What makes this film —produced by Rai Cinema and Rodeo Drive, and which will be released on the 1st of April on 245 copies distributed by 01 Distribution— special, is that the involuntary co-scriptwriter was the President of the Republic himself. ‘Yes, it was Carlo Azeglio Ciampi’, confirms the director. ‘About a year ago, when he went to the traditional encounter with the candidates to the David de Donatello, his speech on the importance and the necessity to play inspired me.’

With this prestigious contribution, D’Alatri made a very modern story, located in a rich Italian province (Cremona) ; it is about bureaucracy, ‘mobbing’, love, and envy. The film is filled with ‘love and rage’ towards Italy,’ says the director before he adds, ‘This film is political in the good sense ; it is not accusing. It is important to put one’s hands into dirty reality and have the courage to say that things cannot go on like this’. After which D’Alatri shifts to another issue, that of the film funding system in Italy. ‘Even nowadays, our film industry is a state industry, some kind of communist system. But there is no use in giving people pocket money to film some stuff instead of helping talents to grow.’

(Translated from Italian)