This documentary on the life of Lino Miccichè, a leading Italian intellectual, film critic and historian, columnist and cultural organizer is narrated from the personal point of view of his son, the director Francesco Miccichè. Its account of Lino Miccichès intense life, enriched with previously unpublished Rai archive material, effectively traces the full span of Italian cinema from the 1950s until the first decade of this century, using this narrative to reflect on a whole generation of fathers and what they left to their sons. Making a film about ones own father is a journey. Mine began when he was still alive and possibly isnt yet entirely finished. Nearly ten years after his death, it seemed important to me to reflect on a life that gave and did so much for cinema. My father had a clear vision of the world in his head and tried to improve the world to make it correspond with that vision. At heart, the questions posed by Lino Miccichès generation are not that different from our ...