with the goal of revisiting ones own history
In »Chi l'ha visto«, the feature film debut of the German director Claudia Rorarius, we accompany the protagonist Gianni Meurer on a journey from Berlin to Italy. There, Gianni a man in his early thirties, searches for his father he last saw 25 years ago. Besides pale childhood memories, everything Gianni has from his father, are a couple of letters and a photograph. Gianni shows this photo to everyone he meets on his way to Rome where he suspects his father.
Fiction and reality, role and drama biography interweave in an inseparable way in »Chi l'ha visto«: Gianni Meurer is also his name in real life. In Germany a popular musical actor, he is - just like in the film - half German and lost contact to his father as a child. »Chi l'ha visto« makes these concrete biographical aspects the key starting point of a fictional search for traces during which Gianni meets the young German Paul who he spends a couple of days with. Paul is played by Paul Kominek who is internationally famous as a musician under the names »Turner« and »Pawel« published on labels such as Dial, Mute and EMI.
»Chi l'ha visto« is a haunting, calmly photographed road movie with a clear sense of beauty of the landscapes of North Italy circling around questions of personal as well as national identity. It is a refined reflection about how it is possible in the united Europe to completely disappear from the scene despite mobile phones, despite Google and despite family
