Exit: Una storia personale (2010)

Interesting facts

Exit: una storia personale, is a 2010 Italian indie drama film written and directed by Massimiliano Amato and starring Luca Guastini, Nicola Garofalo, Marcella Braga, Paolo Di Gialluca and Antonio Calamonici. The film depicts an intimate portrait of a man suffering from mental anguish and his relationship with his brother.

Production

The spark that inspired the plot was meeting a young man who told Amato he was planning to go to the Netherlands for an assisted suicide (See the law on Euthanasia in the Netherlands and the Chabot case, 1991–95). The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity. As far as he was concerned, life was endless suffering.

Though from Amato's point of view this film is not really about euthanasia, the film deals with this topic. What director was most interested in revealing was, foremost, an intimate portrait of a man suffering from mental anguish and his relationship with his brother, rather than the medical, social and ethical questions that surround the matter, though the film does indeed tackle these issues head on.

The screenplay was completed in 2001 and had already been optioned by two producers and presented to MiBAC. The huge production delays were the main reason that led Massimiliano Amato to decide to produce it independently.

The entire film was shot without any crew and background support at all, Amato has described the production model as "a complete lack of structure".

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