El Mazzarol is a little man, with red skin and hair, dressed in black, who can appear and disappear whenever he likes to put under his spell shepherds and shepherdesses. Only he knows the secret of how to make milk trurn into butter, cheese, ricotta and candle wax. Margherita, having lost her memory, when Mazzarol blew on her, serves and helpes him until she becomes a very good diarymaid. Having regained her memory she escapes before learning how to extract wax from whey, a secret wich is still kept by Mazzarol. This is the first of ten films on the alpine legends of Trentino, gathered by the writer Giovanna Borzaga.
Director
Gianfranco Dusmet
In 1980 he started to work in television first as a cameraman, then in editing and finally as director. He has worked for several programmes for RAI and Mediaset and for many documentaries about sport, current affairs, art and culture. Over the past years, many of his productions have been selected by several festivals in Italy (Trento, Turin, Palermo, Venice, Milan, Asolo) and abroad (Jaca-Spain, Banff-Canada, Les Diablerets- Switzerland). He received several awards including the Swiss “Grain d’Or” for the short El Mazzarol and in Spain the “Trofeo del Consejo Superior de Deportes” for the sport documentary Marcialonga ‘92. Last year he made and produced a report from Israel about instances of peaceful co-existence
between Palestinians and Israelis, which was broadcast on Rai 3.