Dieter Roth, (2003, 118min; still), A film by Edith Jud, A RECK Film production, Zürich in collaboration with Laurenz-Stiftung, Basel / Schaulager in co-production with SF DRS and 3sat
Cinematographer: Pio Corradi
Editor: Loredana Cristelli
Music: Dieter Roth (and with friends)
Original Sound: Martin Witz
Producer: Franziska Reck
Feat.: Björn Roth, Oddur Roth, Sigrídur Björnsdóttir, Dorothy Iannone, Emmett Williams, Richard Hamilton, Arnulf Rainer, Hermann Nitsch, Jan Voss, Kurt Kalb, Hansjörg Mayer, Wolfgang Roth, Gunnar Helgason, Pétur Kristjánsson, Gudmundur Oddur Matnusson, Eggert Einarsson, Dadi Gudbjörnsson, Ari Kristinsson
Locations: Hamburg, Berlin, Island, London, Vienna, Gerlafingen, Basel
"But of all his sons and daughters, whether legitimate or natural, the one for whom the Moor felt the most intense and enduring affection was Bianca Giovanna, born of a torrid youthful affair with an Apulian girl of humble origins, Bernardina de Corradis, perhaps the daughter of fishermen, whom he met in 1482, when Ludovico, Duke of Bari and in exile, was frequenting the city. Having settled Bernardina for the better, he wanted to keep little Bianca Giovanna with him, taking her to Milan, and promised her in marriage to Galeazzo Sanseverino, the brilliant and charming knight who won the joust held to marry Beatrice.
At the same time, on 20 June 1496, Bianca Giovanna, the Moor's 15-year-old daughter, married Galeazzo Sanseverino, to whom she had been promised when she was still a child. Ludovico loved his first-born daughter very much, illegitimate and then legitimised, the result, as we have already said, of an ardent youthful passion with Bernardina de Corradis, a girl from Bari, perhaps the daughter of fishermen, whom he had met when he was in Apulia as duke of Bari but, in fact, in exile. He had become so fond of this girl that, on his return to Milan, he wanted to take her with him. Because of her grace, beauty and friendliness, Bianca Giovanna was soon considered one of the most promising bridesmaids of the court: 'She is no less dear to me as if she had been born to me from my most illustrious consort,' Ludovico repeated, and he was sincere if one thinks that he had given her the town of Voghera as dowry." - Carlo Maria Lomartire, Il Moro. Gli Sforza nella Milano di Leonardo