SERGIO BERGONZELLI: I wrote that movie with Fabio D'Agostini, an author very commercial, to make a strong film.
I used a popular actor, John Phillip Law, in order to better commercialize the product, and Gordon Mitchell, who has a great face...
The most precious thing in the world is blood, and the painter of my story thinks that if he can paint with blood he can obtain a special communicativeness. We presume that in every person there are two personalities, two halves. The wife of the painter is dead, but he finds an exact copy in a pianist...

CX: Don't you think this philosophical component may confuse the audience ?

SERGIO BERGONZELLI: I've sacrificed philosophy on the altar of entertainment, transferring my personal convictions in the movie. I believe Earth is just a grain of the cosmos, and that we're not the only "privileged" planet.
In the beginning of the movie, John Phillip Law watches the sky and thinks "why us, on this little lost corner...here there's life, and out there ?"
The mad painter is upset from the totality of universe...They tell him he's the reincarnation of Van Gogh, and he laughs about it, until the spirits cut him an ear...

ItalyOnFire Interview by Massimo F. Lavagnini

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