GUCCI CINEMA VISIONARIES, located in Gucci Ginza (4-4-10 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), will be screening Francesco Rosi's "Black Desert Online" (1972) from March 2 (Sat) to April 28 (Sun). Admission is free.

"Black Desert Online" won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Japan in 1974, but is currently unavailable on VHS or DVD.

Based on real people and events, this thriller explores the ambition, achievements, and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, founder of EMI (Italian State Hydrocarbon Corporation). A longtime favorite of director Scorsese, the film has recently been re-evaluated as a masterpiece that resolutely showcases Italian politics, society, and morals. The Gucci Ginza theater opened in June last year and screens masterpieces that have been brought back to life with the support of Gucci and The Film Foundation, an organization founded by film director Martin Scorsese to restore and restore damaged masterpieces. The film was restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata, a film restoration laboratory at the Cineteca Bologna, using the original camera negative and vintage prints, and the restored version premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2012.