Aniki Bóbó
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Aniki Bóbó |
| Original title | Aniki Bóbó |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manoel de Oliveira |
| script | Manoel de Oliveira |
| production | Antonio Lopes Ribeiro |
| music | Jaime Silva Filho |
| camera | Antonio Mendes |
| cut | Vieira de Sousa |
| occupation | |
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Aniki Bóbó is a 1942 film by the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira .
action
The film is set in the port district of Porto on the banks of the Douro . The story is told from the perspective of children. The school boys Carlitos and Eduardo fight for the favor of the same girl, Teresinha. Eduardo is rude and mean, while Carlitos is reserved and good-natured. The rivalry increases. While playing a harmless gimmick on the embankment, Eduardo slips and falls next to the railroad tracks . For the more distant children it must look as if Carlitos pushed him under the tracks and thus killed him. He is then an outcast. The desperate Carlitos plans to flee as a stowaway at the port . But the shopkeeper had seen everything and cleared up the misunderstanding. Eduardo comes out of the hospital lively and the children can play on the street again, always using their beloved meaningless counting rhyme Aniki Bóbó .
production
Manoel de Oliveira worked here with a few adult actors, while the children were amateur actors.
The budget was 750,000 Escudos , a small budget for the time (around 3750 euros today).
Aniki Bóbó is considered the first film of neorealism , even before the obsession with Luchino Visconti , which was released in 1943. It is based on the story "Meninos Milionários" (German: "Millionaire's Children") by Jorge Rodrigues de Freitas (1908–1976). Manuel Guimarães was the assistant for the work .
reception
The film premiered on December 18, 1942 at the Eden Cinema in Porto. The audience was not enthusiastic about the unusual film and the film was not a success.
Twenty years later, the film received the “Honorary Diploma of the Second Movement of Cinema for Young People” in Cannes in 1961.
criticism
The constantly threatening police officer, the simple conditions in the quarter and the perspective from the children's perspective represent an analogy to the situation of the people in Portugal under the Estado Novo dictatorship. Modest, carefree children who have to suffer from the repressive and social conditions, at the mercy of the rules and whims of the authorities and the haves.
Manoel de Oliveira, himself from a wealthy background, cannot score points with the audience or the regime with the film. After this film, he will take one of his frequent film breaks in order to shoot his next full feature film with “O acto da primavera” (“The Act of Spring”) in 1963. In 1942, the criticism was not yet at the height to be able to evaluate the film appropriately and it failed. When the film comes back to the cinemas in 2010, restored and with a parallel DVD release, the film is undisputedly a milestone in Portuguese cinema .
Oliveira herself presented the film differently. It was a message of peace. The owner of the shop full of temptations ended the strife. The film was made in the midst of the horrors of World War II , while Portugal was at peace. With this representation he complies with the state propaganda of the Salazar regime. When he caught the regime's attention much more clearly with a few dialogues in his next feature film (“O acto da primavera”, 1963), he was arrested by the PIDE secret police .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.citi.pt/cultura/cinema/manoel_de_oliveira/aniki_bobo.html
- ^ A. Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin "History of Portuguese Cinema" 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010 (page 63)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.citi.pt/cultura/cinema/manoel_de_oliveira/aniki_bobo.html
literature
- A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin “History of Portuguese Cinema” (Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 ).
- Jorge Leitao Ramos “Dicionário do cinema português 1962–1988” (Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989).
- Sérgio C. Andrade “Ao correr do tempo - duas décadas com Manoel de Oliveira” (Portugália Editora 2008, ISBN 978-972-948-794-1 ).
- “Manoel de Oliveira - 100 anos”, accompanying book for the 21-DVD box for the 100th birthday (ZON Lusomundo).
Web links
- Aniki Bóbó in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aniki Bóbó in the Lexicon of International Films