Nobel picks up some of the themes of Quartetto Basileus: the denied paternity, the conflict between generation, regret for time lost and melancholy. The film is the story of a long car-journey made by write Alberto to receive the Nobel prize. The journey winds through Switzerland, Germany and Denmark with a journalist who has the task to interview him every day.

Between the two characters an uninterrupted dialogue starts, which expresses itself in the past for the writer and for the young journalist in the present and future. But there is also a woman in the film, she is the one the writer had loved and abandoned out of selfishness in the past. She returns constantly to his memory's attention in moments of loneliness until finally her image is evoked forever young.

Travel meetings, clashes between the two characters who are quite a few years apart in age, misunderstandings, jealousies, arguments ad separations make up the plot of a road-movie towards the prize a writer yearns for the most.

The carrying structure of the film that conducts the two characters "towards glory" is made up of looks that count as much as behaviours and moments of silence that are worth as much as words, while around them different landscapes run by, there to underline the film's emotional line.

December.2001