Baarìa

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Movie
German title Baarìa
Original title Baarìa - La porta del vento
Country of production Italy , Tunisia
original language Sicilian
Publishing year 2009
length 160 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Giuseppe Tornatore
script Giuseppe Tornatore
production Tarak Ben Ammar
music Ennio Morricone
camera Enrico Lucidi
cut Massimo Quaglia
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Baarìa (Original title: Baarìa - La porta del vento , reference title: Baaria - An Italian family story ) is an Italian film directed in Sicilian dialect by Giuseppe Tornatore , which opened the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2009 . The film was first shown in German cinemas in 2010.

action

Tornatore, who also wrote the screenplay, describes the life of three generations in Sicily in his family saga, which is based on his own family history .

The film takes place in the home of the director, in Bagheria in the metropolitan city of Palermo . The Italian subtitle La Porta del Vento (The Gate of the Wind) refers to the Arabic origin of the place name after an etymological interpretation that has not been clearly proven .

The focus is on the love couple and later married couple Peppino and Mannina, from whose perspective the film plot is told. Peppino is the son of the shepherd Ciccio, representative of the younger generation is Peppino's son Pietro. What all three have in common is an interest in culture, cinema and politics. The action begins in the late 1920s and ends in the 1980s.

The childhood of the three men is shaped by the different political circumstances such as fascism , World War II , communism in Italy , the Sicilian mafia and the political and social upheavals and tensions in post-war Italy.

production

Most of the film was shot in Bagheria, the birthplace of Tornatores. Baarìa is the vernacular name for Bagheria. Some episodes were created in the old town of Tunis , as the cityscape there looks more like the historical Baarìa than the Bagheria of today. A total of around 35,000 extras took part in the shooting.

The original language is a local dialect of the Sicilian language that is only spoken in Baarìa. At the premiere, the film was shown in an Italian- dubbed version with slight Sicilian tints. The aim was to avoid presenting the film with subtitles and at the same time preserve its Sicilian character.

Awards and nominations

The director Tornatore received the Francesco Pasinetti Award of the Italian film journalists at the Venice Film Festival 2009. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival 2010, as well as for the Golden Globe Awards 2010 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . On the occasion of the 2010 Academy Awards , it was also a candidate for Italy's contribution in the Best Foreign Film (Oscar) category , but was not nominated. In 2010 he won the Globo d'Oro for Best Director .

Reviews

As Felicitas Kleiner states, the film wants to tell “too much: about fascism and the war, about the barren, artisanal peasant life, about hunger and social injustice, about communism, family relationships, love, dreams and disappointments, about Sicily, his Mentality and its myths, and finally of the cinema itself. Baarìa examines all these topics by reviewing the lives of father, son and grandson of a shepherd family from the 1930s to the 1980s, but remains everywhere only on the surface and lets too many threads of the narrative end loosely in the rough. "

Petra Reski judges the film very critically in ZEIT . Under the title “Beautiful guys, busty women, the light: warm as honey” she writes: “Baaría” glorifies Sicily what Berlusconi , whose production company produced the film, loves . Even the tourism authority is happy - and so is the mafia. "

Animal cruelty controversy

After animal welfare organizations had drawn the public's attention to the fact that animal cruelty was being practiced during the shooting of the film , the film and director Giuseppe Tornatore came under fire. To record a scene, a cow was stabbed with an awl in front of the camera and bleed to death . The corresponding scene was filmed in Tunisia to circumvent the Italian animal welfare law or criminal law.

The killing of the animal provoked numerous protests in the population. Personalities from culture and politics distanced themselves from the film and consumer protection organizations called for a boycott . The oldest and one of the largest animal welfare organizations in Italy, the “Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali” (ENPA), called for the film to be withdrawn from all cinemas and filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor in Rome.

The killing of the animal was also condemned by the official government side, which also reserved the right to take legal action. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policy, Francesca Martini, described the killing as a "serious matter". In a written declaration she wrote, among other things, that “an Italian cinema production must respect the rules in force in its country, in Italy as a legal obligation and abroad as a moral obligation.”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of release for Baarìa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 303 K).
  2. Age rating for Baarìa . Youth Media Commission .
  3. Giuseppe Tornatore on the origin of the name of Baaría , cinefacts.de, accessed on July 14, 2010
  4. ^ About the Italian synchronization (Italian) , Messaggero Veneto, published on August 1, 2009, accessed on July 14, 2007
  5. film service , September 2009
  6. published in DIE ZEIT, April 29, 2010 , accessed on July 16, 2010
  7. "Bovino sgozzato sul set di" Baaria "" , Corriere della Sera , September 24, 2009
  8. "Baaria, deputata Pdl:" Sono schifata "" , Corriere della Sera 25 September, 2009
  9. "L'Enpa: ritirate" Baaria "because tutte le sale" , Corriere della Sera, October 2nd 2009
  10. "Caso Baarìa, verifiche sull'uccisione del bovino" , La Repubblica , 25 September 2009
  11. "" Baarìa, bovino ucciso? Un fatto gravissimo »“ , Corriere della Sera, September 26, 2009