Dante The Divine Comedy

Through the Divine Comedy, Dante takes us on a marvelous journey into ourselves, during which we will get familiar with our monsters in order to find our way to the light.

Franco Ricordi, actor and philosopher, accompanies us to Dante’s otherworldly worlds through the recitation and philosophical interpretation of several cantos of the Divine Comedy.
The Impossible Journey is a journey within ourselves, to the knowledge of our most dramatic weaknesses, our monsters, embodied here by two young actors who will cross the three realms, from darkness to light, just like us.
Our stage is a puzzle of eternal places such as the Duomo of Florence, the Museo dell’Opera and the Certosa, which merge with the chiaroscuro of the forest, the Wild Forest, with the shimmer of the sea that laps the Purgatory mountain and with the dazzle of the sunny Teatro del Silenzio, in Lajatico.

Guiding us is Virgil, a shining shadow of the past, and holding us steady along the way is an unquenchable light: the Love of Beatrice.

She awaits us at the gates of Paradise to accompany us along the final climb to Eternal Light.
The third is the Canticle of Freedom: if Hell and Purgatory are studded with a myriad of missed opportunities, Heaven is inhabited by those who, from their moments of perdition, have found the strength to rise up and embrace the fullness of their being, free from the chains of sin.

Love is the ungovernable force that moves everything, even when pain seems to have crystallised everything. It underlies every canto of this work, from its darkest glimpses to the final, ecstatic vision of eternal light.
This is how Dante Alighieri, poet, philosopher, and politician of the 1300s, condemned to exile and burning at the stake by his fellow citizens, saves himself, in the eternal hymn to Liberty that is his Divine Comedy.

Italy 2023

Director

Roberta Borgonovo

Screenwriter

Roberta Borgonovo

Cinematography

Massimo Gatti

Franco Ricordi, actor and philosopher, accompanies us to Dante’s otherworldly worlds through the recitation and philosophical interpretation of several cantos of the Divine Comedy.
The Impossible Journey is a journey within ourselves, to the knowledge of our most dramatic weaknesses, our monsters, embodied here by two young actors who will cross the three realms, from darkness to light, just like us.
Our stage is a puzzle of eternal places such as the Duomo of Florence, the Museo dell’Opera and the Certosa, which merge with the chiaroscuro of the forest, the Wild Forest, with the shimmer of the sea that laps the Purgatory mountain and with the dazzle of the sunny Teatro del Silenzio, in Lajatico.

Guiding us is Virgil, a shining shadow of the past, and holding us steady along the way is an unquenchable light: the Love of Beatrice.

She awaits us at the gates of Paradise to accompany us along the final climb to Eternal Light.
The third is the Canticle of Freedom: if Hell and Purgatory are studded with a myriad of missed opportunities, Heaven is inhabited by those who, from their moments of perdition, have found the strength to rise up and embrace the fullness of their being, free from the chains of sin.

Love is the ungovernable force that moves everything, even when pain seems to have crystallised everything. It underlies every canto of this work, from its darkest glimpses to the final, ecstatic vision of eternal light.
This is how Dante Alighieri, poet, philosopher, and politician of the 1300s, condemned to exile and burning at the stake by his fellow citizens, saves himself, in the eternal hymn to Liberty that is his Divine Comedy.