
Diary of a Sane Man ( 1990 )
Overview
Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.
Top Cast

Micha Bergese
The Sane Man

Julia Langley
Antonin Artaud

Sara Donadoni
grandchild

Charles Shuts
grandfather

Gad Hollander
film-maker

Monty Ray Garrison
poet

Raffaella Monti
Venus/Aphrodite

Antonio Celiento
Adonis

Carla Fioravanti
Fortune Teller

David L Hirst
farmer's voice

Ian Hinchliffe
studio chef

Lol Coxhill
fat producer

Paul Lawrence Davies
thin producer

Tony Green
producer with hat

Gerry Fitzgerald
second fat producer

Angela Abelini & Baby
motionless women

Marina Chiarelotto
motionless women

Marta Donati
motionless women

Marta & Alice Mottura
moving children

Ali
1st. tractor driver

Palmiero Pisani
2nd. tractor driver

Christopher Duke
bike rider

Graham Gussin
(god)

Sotheby
dog

Adi Hollander
home-movie stars

Gavriel Hollander
home-movie stars

Noam Hollander
home-movie stars

Mimi Hollander
home-movie stars
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