The news of the achievent – at the Venice film festival – of the golden Lion for the Career to Stanley Kubrick had been spread around the world.

During the Festival, a restored version of “A Clockwork Orange” was going to be screened and a season of his movies was going to be made – attending film critics, actors, collaborators, people who met him.
A perfect occasion to carry out an idea laying in our head from a long time: trying to do something no one else would ever think before – maybe because either too hard, or too stupid: to realize a documentary about HIM.
The first Internet researches start, as the solidarity answers from the Virtual World.

September 1st, 1997

Venice: our keys are three “pass” of a local TV station and a letter of presentation from the Festival Director, Felice Laudadio.
We start with Carlo Di Palma, the DOP of Antonioni and Woody Allen, who tells us about when he met Kubrick the time he was making “2001”, and how he gave K. some special lamps he invented.
First gig: Malcolm McDowell: an interview about his work and relationship with K.; he also allows us to shoot the rehearsal of his show inspired by “A Clockwork Orange.
Soon after, the French film critic Michel Ciment, one of the very few often in touch with the man, author of one of the most important books about Him.

The day of the prize-giving came at last. The world had stopped: princess Diana barely died in an accident, no one will come to Venice: neither Tom Cruise, nor Nicole Kidman. Jane Campion took the award for Stanley. We asked her where's the Lion – “Warnerboys snatched it out of my arms” – she said.
We came back home satisfied but without a real structure of our doc.
The research goes on.
We see the backstage of “The Shining”, made by K.'s daughter, and a documentary by Channel 4 called “The Invisible Man”.
Venice Film Festival director Felice Laudadio tells us again about the cinema of S.K. and his non-presence at every kind of event like screenings and festivals.
Then we meet Mario Maldesi, the most important Italian dubbing director, collaborator of K. since “A Clockwork Orange”, who remembered how K. himself worked for months on the foreign versions of his films, considering them as real films.
Riccardo Aragno, friend and writer of all his Italian dialogues, tells about the special dialogue in all K.'s movies.

The huge Kubrickian virtual world goes on giving info and upgrade every day.
Faisal Qureshi, film editor and journalist from Leeds University, became our most efficient collaborator. the 
We found the U.S. Chess Master Larry Evans, an old friend of Stanley and his Chess teacher at the time he used to live in the Greenwich Village, NYC, in the 50s.

December, 1998.

The preparations for the journey to England were discouraging.
Pinewood Studios, where K. just finished his 2-years-long shooting of “Eyes Wide Shut” , were still unapproachable. Nobody still knew anything about the ex-gas works of Beckton,East London, where “Full Metal Jacket” was shot. Julian Senior, Warner Bros. Publicity director and close friend of K., was also unattainable.
Our only actual contact was Andre' Bottin from St.Albans, Hertfordshire, the small town where K. lives. We decided to settle there, in a little hotel. Something had to happen.

Soho, London: we went to transvestite bar Madame JoJo, where a mysterious scene of the film had been shot. To get some advice we met Paul joyce, who directed the already-mentioned documentay “The Invisible Man”. He suggested to quit with our project:”Don't do it! Your career will suffer…Mine suffered…”. The raid at the Warner Bros. was useless, Senior was still not to be found.
In St.Albans we asked the inhabitants if they knew their distinguished fellow citizen K.: almost nobody knew him. Some taxi driver said to have hooked him once; a drunken gentleman mistaked him for Santa Claus in the picture we show him, another one revealed that his uncle used to be K.'s gardener.
We knew, in every single moment of the day, that K. was there: in a very short distance.
And came back home perfectly conscious that we had to go back there: this journey had been just an essay…an inspection.

1999 – first two months

The research goes on. The initiatives on K. increased: some study congresses and a season of his films are made in the major Italian Universities. 
Such a study and attention was never done on any other living film director.
We find the “underground” short films by Jordan Bellson and Pat O'Neill: a Psychedelia we can notice in “2001”, showing evidence of the interest of K. for the artistic contemporary avant-garde.

March, 7, 1999: Stanley Kubrick dies

After several discussions we decided to go on with the project. We met the Italian screenwriter Ennio de Concini, Oscar-awarded for “Divorce Italian-style”, who met K.. many years ago in order to write with him. Then the film theoric Sandro Bernardi, who wrote an important essay about K. We're entering more and more into the K.'s universe, his philosophy, his obsessions, his themes.
But there wasn't still any answer from the Warner bros about the chance of having the clips of K.'s films.

May, 27,1999 we flied back to Britain.

Ken Adam, set designer on “Dr.Strangelove” and “Barry Lyndon” (for what he won an Oscar) received us at his house talking about his close and hard work with K., his absolute need of precision for every single detail, and his long friendship with him.
Gordon Stainforth, former assistant editor for “The Shining”, told about the very long time he spent at the cutting room into K.'s house, how incredibly precise was the work on the sound and the editing of the music; he actually finished the editing of the film, replacing the first editor.
Alan Whibley, who made a part of the SFX in “The Shining”, told other stories.
Then we went to the Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, to remember with the little help of the direct witnesses (Paul Welsh and Barry Wilson, as well as Brian Peters)the huge fire that destroyed the sound stage where K. was shooting “The Shining” and K. at the projection room.

Beckton, ex gas works, on the Thames: John Ward, the steadicam operator of “Full Metal Jacket”, brings us at least with him where they shot a large part of the film, digging into his several memories of that unforgettable set.
Going more back in the Past, we find then one of the three “droogs” of “A Clockwork Orange”: Michael Tarn, who played the younger, “Pete”. After all these years the violent boy became a quiet family man. 
We entered at last the heart of K.'s world. We go back home, but we know it's not over yet.

July, 13, 1999

In our following travel to England happens what we didn't even dare to hope.
Murray Melvin, who played the reverend Runt in “Barry Lyndon”, gives us an interview full of love and deep memories. 
We also get to Philip Stone, the actor who played in three different films of K.: the father of Alex in “A Clockwork Orange”, the family counselor in “Barry Lyndon”, and the legendary Mr.Grady – ex-ghost owner of the Overlook Hotel in “The Shining”.
Film critic Alexander Walker was definitely one of the closer people to K. for a long time: he reports about their relationship and makes many reflections about the whole opera of his friend.
At least we cross the inviolable doors of the Warner Bros.: Julian Senior gave us a great interview about his longtime friend and collaborator.
Now we are in the ultimate close circle.
After a few hours an incredible Warner car with driver takes us to the Pinewood studios.
There Leon Vitali, K.'s inseparable assistant and friend, ex-Lord Bullingdon in “Barry Lyndon”, is waiting for us;

The day after we were welcomed into the Kubrick family: Jan Harlan, executive producer of all Stanley's films and his brother-in-law, lives in st.Albans, too, just a few meters from the small hotel where we settled first. We were very, very close.

As a matter of fact…we crossed that gate with the sign “No Trespassing”: a privilege reserved to a very few in the whole world.
Christiane Kubrick, his wife and widow, gave us the honor of a long journey into her memories.
The rules were simple: no shots of the house…and – of course – no gossip questions. 

Stanley was sleeping quietly under some stones in a circle of trees, in the beautiful opposite lawn.

It was one of the most intense days of all our life.