6 × Venice

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Movie
German title 6 × Venice
Original title Be Venezia
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 2010
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Carlo Mazzacurati
script Carlo Mazzacurati,
Marco Pettenello,
Claudio Piersanti
production Marina Zangirolami
music Eleni Karaindrou
camera Luca Bigazzi
cut Paolo Cottignola
occupation

6 × Venice (Original title: Sei Venezia ) is an Italian film by the director Carlo Mazzacurati from 2010 . Apart from the three hour-long Ritratti films with Marco Paolini , it is Mazzacurati's first documentary . The film premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival . The cinema release in Germany was on March 29, 2012.

content

Based on the experiences of six residents, the film shows a mosaic of Venice away from the tourist crowds and sights. In doing so, he questions what actually defines a city. Buildings, culture and inhabitants are highlighted as essential parts, as well as a certain attitude towards life or an idea, both of which are difficult to define. Going beyond the picturesque setting and the crime novels of Donna Leon, Venice is also home to ordinary residents who go about their business every day. How is life here? The film asks an archivist, a chambermaid, an archaeologist, an artist, a former thief and a child.

reception

In the film magazine Schnitt, Nicole Ribbecke criticized the film's rigid narrative style, but praised Luca Bigazzi's “picturesque images that not only loosen up the conservative narrative structure, but also the narrow streets and canals”. The “atmospheric city panoramas” are also “always aptly, sometimes almost comedic” by Eleni Karaindrou.

Movie title

The film contains a play on words in the original title Sei Venezia , since "Sei" in Italian stands for both the number six and the second person singular of the verb essere ( German to be ). The title can therefore mean “Six (Mal) Venice” as well as “You are Venice” in the original Italian, which is no longer expressed in the German title “6 × Venice”.  

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Info. Sei Venezia (2010). Internet Movie Database, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  2. ^ A b Nicole Ribbecke: Cut or in one piece. In: schnitt.de. Cut , accessed November 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ For example, the entry in the online dictionary de.pons.com of the Pons publishing house .