Daratt
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Daratt |
| Country of production | Chad , France , Belgium and Austria |
| original language | Arabic , French |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
| script | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
| production | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Abderrahmane Sissako |
| music | Wasis Diop |
| camera | Abraham Haile Biru |
| cut | Marie-Hélène Dozo |
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Daratt is a film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun from Chad . It is a co-production of Chad, France , Belgium and Austria .
action
Atim, a sixteen-year-old, is assigned by his blind grandfather to kill his father's murderer. He hands him a pistol. Atim goes to the capital N'Djamena and finds Nassara, his father's murderer, but fails to shoot him. He moves into his house and helps out in his bakery. Nassara is now an honorable man who gives bread to the poor and who develops a certain affection for Atim, although he is very brittle. Atim has several opportunities to kill Nassara, but never manages to do so. After Aicha, Nassara's wife, miscarried, he wanted to adopt Atim. They both drive to Atim's hometown, where Atim's grandfather forces him to shoot Nassara. However, Atim shoots twice in the air. The blind grandfather considers the death of Atim's father to be avenged.
The film deals with the complicated situation in Chad, which had to live with the consequences of a civil war (1979–1982). A general amnesty for all those involved in the war seemed to make it particularly difficult for many citizens who were previously hostile to live together.
Emergence
Daratt was created on the occasion of the Mozart Year 2006 at the invitation of the director Peter Sellars , who at that time invited filmmakers for his New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna to use the Mozart works Die Zauberflöte , La clemenza di Tito and Requiem as sources of inspiration. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun decided to reinterpret the Titus motifs forgiveness and reconciliation in Chad after the civil war.
Awards
- 2006: Grand Jury Prize, 63rd Venice International Film Festival
Web links
- Daratt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grand Jury Prize for "Daratt". (No longer available online.) Oe1.orf.at, archived from the original on October 19, 2008 ; Retrieved November 3, 2008 . 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.
