Christ only came to Eboli (film)

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Movie
German title Christ only came to Eboli
Original title Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1979
Rod
Director Francesco Rosi
script Tonino Guerra ,
Raffaele La Capria ,
Francesco Rosi
production Nicola Carraro ,
Franco Cristaldi
music Piero Piccioni
camera Pasqualino De Santis
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

Christ only came to Eboli is an Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi in 1979 , based on the 1945 report of the same name by Carlo Levi . It is about a doctor from Turin who, as an opponent of the fascist state, was banished to a remote southern Italian town in 1935. In doing so, he gradually experiences the strange, archaic and miserable life of the place. Rosi was already carrying himself after his Who shot Salvatore G.? from 1961 with the idea of ​​filming Levi's text, however, postponed the project in favor of current topics.

reception

According to the Fischer Film Almanach 1981, the literary template is implemented "carefully and visually haunting", as faithfully as possible, without following the text literally, but with regard to the structure. Thanks to the main actor and the camerawork, “this film has become a differentiated cultural document and at the same time an event that is cinematic in terms of color and light, shadow and mood, montage and rhythm.” Zoom noticed a change in Rosi's style, from realistic political thrillers to one “Ethnographic-anthropological analysis” of southern Italian culture. The film has "warmth and an almost classic-looking design". The “extremely cautious and poetic narrative style” corresponds to the original, the story is “not conceived as a naturalistic, polemical report on the continuing pauperism of the south, but as a sensitive encounter between two cultures.” Cameraman De Santis and Rosi had the barren landscape in “great “Captured images.

The Lexicon of International Films praised the main actor, the aesthetics of the landscape and the “differentiating understanding” of the essence of southern Italy. In the Protestant film observer , the film was interpreted as a Christian allegory. The main character, the exiled doctor, wins the trust of the local population precisely through his passivity and his silence; he refrained from proselytizing civilization as well as from mendacious and flattering adaptation. They accepted him “because the doctor just 'doesn't want anything', because he modestly, unobtrusively, without metropolitan arrogance, through pure intuition makes people perceive him as a person who is different, but also just as one Man like her. ”Only thanks to this trust did he manage to humanize the population - a figure of Christ would come to this village after all. That is why it is one of the most religious films in recent years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Ulrich: Christo si è fermato a Eboli . In: Zoom , No. 9/1980, pp. 12–15
  2. ↑ Fischer Film Almanach 1981. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-23665-7 , pp. 35-36
  3. ^ Lexicon of International Films. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1995. ISBN 3-499-16357-8 , Volume A – C, pp. 855–856
  4. ↑ Hans Ohly: Christ only came to Eboli . Printed in: Lothar R. Just (Ed.): Das Filmjahr '80 / 81. Filmland Presse, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88690-021-5 , pp. 46-47