Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federale, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an ancestral hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don't know it and between them "the greatest friendship in the world" is born, impermeable to the divisions of history that are covering Europe with blood. But, on October 16, Riccardo is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo's federal father, the three friends think they know where he is and, to honor the "spit pact", they decide to leave secretly to convince the Germans to free their friend. The three children begin to travel in an Italy exhausted by war, among soldiers in disarray, deserters, occupying German troops and starving populations.
The three children are not entirely alone, two adults set off to bring them home: Agnese, a nun from the orphanage where Vanda lives, and Vittorio, Italo's brother. She hates violence as a Christian and he is a fascist war hero: they are different and, unlike children, they know it very well, in fact they fight all the time.
The double journey of children and adults in war-torn Italy will be play and terror, childish poetry and deprivation, discovery of life and risk of death: an experience capable of imprinting its seal on all the characters involved, changing the conscience of individuals and their relationships.
film giffoni 2023
L'ULTIMA VOLTA CHE SIAMO STATI BAMBINI
| Category | Out of competition |
| Section | Premiere |
| Tipology | Feature Film |
| Duration | 105’ |
| Production Year | 2023 |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Directed by | Claudio Bisio |
| Screenplay | Fabio Bonifacci, Claudio Bisio |
| Based on the book | by Fabio Bartolomei |
| Director of photography | Italo Petriccione |
| Editor | Luciana Pandolfelli |
| Production Design | Paola Comencini |
| Costume Design | Beatrice Giannini |
| Sound | Umberto Montesanti |
| Music | Pivio, Aldo De Scalzi |
| Casting | Chiara Polizzi (U.I.C.D.) |
| Main cast |
Alessio Di Domenicantonio Vincenzo Sebastiani Carlotta De Leonardis Lorenzo Mcgovern Zaini Marianna Fontana Federico Cesari Claudio Bisio Antonello Fassari |
| Produced by | Sandra Bonzi, Claudio Bisio, Massimo Di Rocco, Luigi Napoleone, Angelo Laudisa |
| Production | Solea, Bartlebyfilm, Rosebud Entertainment Pictures, Medusa Film |
Claudio Bisio
Graduated from the Civic School of Dramatic Art of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Claudio Bisio is a theater actor (among the shows: Tersa Repubblica 1994; Monsieur Malaussène 1997; I bambini sono di sinistra 2003; Grazie 2005; Io quella volta lì avevo 25 anni 2009; Father and Son 2014/2015/2016 e 2018, Ma tu sei felice? 2020, La mia vita raccontata male 2022-23) and cinema (among his films: MEDITERRANEO 1991 – Oscar winner for best foreign film in 1992; PUERTO ESCONDIDO 1992; SOUTH 1993; NIRVANA 1997; ASINI 1999; LA CURA DEL GORILLA 2006; WE CAN DO THAT 2008 – Young David Award in 2009; BENVENUTI AL SUD 2010; BENVENUTI AL NORD 2012; WELCOME MR. PRESIDENT 2013; MA CHE BELLA SORPRESA 2015; COUCH POTATOES 2017; IF YOU LOVE ME 2019; WELCOME BACK MR. PRESIDENT 2019; MARRIAGES (2022).
On television he made his debut with Zanzibar, the sit-com of which he is also author (1988, Italia1), hosted Cielito Lindo (1993, RaiTre), participated in Mai dire gol and Le Iene; from 1997 to 2012 and from 2021 to 2022 he was the soul of Zelig and hosted three editions of the May Day Concert (2004/05/06, RaiTre). He was a judge of Italia's Got Talent for four editions and in 2019 he hosted the 69th Sanremo Music Festival with Claudio Baglioni and Virginia Raffaele. In 2020 and 2021 he was the protagonist of the TV series COPS, UNA BANDA DI POLIZIOTTI directed by Luca Miniero on Sky Cinema, and of the series TUTTA COLPA DI FREUD, directed by Rolando Ravello. In 2023 Ravello directed him again in the fiction VIVERE NON È UN GIOCO DA RAGAZZI for Rai 1.
Among Claudio's passions is music and with his friend Rocco Tanica he made the single Rapput, a record from the summer of 1991. In the summer of 2006 he toured the peninsula with Elio e le Storie Tese with the (almost) rock-opera Coèsi se vi pare. He has published a number of books, including Quella vacca di Nonna Papera (1993, Baldini&Castoldi), Prima comunella e poi comunismo (1996, Baldini e Castoldi) e Claudio Bisio che simpatico umorista (2002, Mondadori). In October 2008, Doppio Misto – Autobiografia di coppia non autorizzata, co-written with Sandra Bonzi for Feltrinelli, was released in bookstores.
THE LAST TIME WE WERE KIDS marks his directorial debut.