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MISTER WONDERLAND

By Valerio CIRIACI

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Biography - Completed 2019

Mister Wonderland recounts the extraordinary story of Sylvester Z. Poli, an artisan of humble means who left his hometown in the Tuscan countryside for the United States at the end of the 19th century, only to become one of the greatest theatrical impresarios of his time.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival dei Popoli International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Italian Competition - “Il Cinemino” Award
Lucca Film Festival 2020
Special Event Screening
Rassegna del Cinema Archeologico 2020
Official Selection
NHdocs New Haven Documentary Film Festival 2020
Opening Night Feature
New Italian Cinema Events 2020
Official Selection
AegeanDocs IFF 2021
Feature Length Documentaries
Waterloo Historical Film Festival 2021
Documentary competition
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Biography, Art - Culture, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, ITALY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 54 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Valerio CIRIACI
    • Writer(s)
    • Valerio CIRIACI, Luca PERETTI
    • Producer(s)
    • Isaak LIPTZIN (Awen Films), Valerio CIRIACI (Awen Films), Luca PERETTI (Awen Films), Maurizio BERNARDI (Awen Films), Cristina GIANNI (Awen Films)
    • Synopsis
    • In 1872, a young sculptor by the name of Zeffirino Poli left his village in the mountains near Lucca, in northern Tuscany, in search of a better life overseas. Only a few years later, he was at the center of the American cultural and artistic world. As the owner of more than 30 theaters across the North-East, his name had become a guiding light for an entire generation of performers and spectators. Despite his remarkable success, today his work has been largely forgotten. But two of his descendants, Tim in Connecticut and Luana in Tuscany, have started unearthing the memories and the tangible remains of S. Z. Poli’s eventful life story. Intertwining past and present with archival material and animation, Mister Wonderland reconstructs Sylvester’s journey from rural Italy to the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties – revealing how a migrant’s imagination helped shape American entertainment as we know it today.
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