Story about Rosso come il cielo / Red Like the Sky / 红色天空 / 听见天堂
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discover the possib...
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discover the possibilities of the recorded sound.
The film is inpired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editor working today, who happen to be blind. A small village in Tuscany, 1971. Mirco is a bright, lively 10-year-old, crazy about the movies - especially Western and adventure films. His father, an incurable idealist, is a truck driver. One day, while Mirco is playing with an old rifle, the gun accidentally goes off; the boy is shot in the head. He survives, but loses his sight. At that time, Italian law conidered blind people hopelessly handicapped, and did not permit them to attend public school. Hence, young Mirco's parents are forced to shut their son up in a "special school for the blind": the David Chiossone Intitute in Genoa. In the beginning Mirco does not accept his new condition. But he is feisty and determined. When he finds an old tape recorder and a few used reels and discover that by cutting and splicing tape he can create little fairy tales made only of sounds, a ...
