CineTeatro Comunale Gerardo Guerrieri

Beautiful

Historic film theater of the city, located in the center. Positioning of the seats not excellent, acoustics not quite up to par.

In our collective trip to Matera, we first admired the Piazza Vittorio Veneto, arrived at the bus station on foot, where they had unloaded us. Beautiful, wide and very busy. Immediately our gaze was drawn to the flags of the European states on the front of a large historic building behind a monumental fountain, to remind us that Matera is the European Capital of Culture. In the Piazza dominates the facade of the building, which houses the Municipal Cinema and two Libraries. In the East corner, the Church of San Domenico makes a fine show.

The "Gerardo Guerrieri" cine-theater (former municipal cinema) was renovated in 2019 and also enabled for theater. Located in the central square of Matera (Piazza Vittorio Veneto) it is located in the historic Palazzo dell'Annunziata, Baroque style, built in 1748 as a Dominican convent. The name of the cine-theater is Gerardo Guerrieri, a very fine intellectual, recognized nationally and internationally as one of the greatest and most influential men of the twentieth century theater. These born in Matera on February 4, 1920 and has lived in the world based in Rome where he was a playwright of Luchino Visconti, assistant director and screenwriter with Vittorio De Sica in "Bicycle Thieves" and other masterpiece that gave him silver ribbon for best Screenplay "Shoeshine". He was the founder, along with his wife Anne d’Arbeloff, of the Teatro Club of Rome. He was a director, translator, essayist, theater critic, radio broadcaster RAI and printed publications, Director of the Einaudi series "Collection of Theater" founded by him and directed in collaboration with Paolo Grassi. His life and his works are collected in the essay "Gerardo Guerrieri: a stage full of dreams" by Selene Warriors (Edizioni Magister) in letters Giorgio Albertazzi, Luchino Visconti, Edoardo De Filippo, Vittorio Gassman, etc .. . Watching a movie, a play or attending a conference in this place is an act of high culture also in memory of the Guerrieri from Matera who brought Matera to the world and the world to Italy in the twentieth century.

Truly impressive construction.