Ninety-year-old Angelo Gasparini from Riomaggiore was chef de cuisine and master of fifty cooks on the luxury liner Andrea Doria. He experienced the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956 after it collided with a Swedish ship off the North American coast. In the video he talks about his eventful life.
Anselmo Crovara has been collecting objects from the everyday and working world of the winegrowers and farmers of the Cinque Terre for decades and has set up an extraordinary museum in his house in Manarola.
Sciacchetrà is a traditional sweet wine made from native grape varieties of the Cinque Terre. It captivates with its aroma of dried apricots and its balance of sweetness and acidity. The brothers Carlo and Gian-Domenico Gasparini produce Sciacchetrà for home use in the traditional way: they stomp the grapes with their feet.
The grape harvest on the steep terraces of the Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast is strenuous and involves a lot of effort. Fedora Rollandi is over seventy and still crawls under the pergola to pick the grapes.
Ein Film von 2003.
Only a few fishermen still catch the sardines using the traditional "lampara" method. The fish are attracted with a strong lamp and caught with the net. Film about a full moon night on the fishing boat.
