The Salt of the Earth (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The salt of the earth |
| Original title | The Salt of the Earth |
| Country of production | France , Brazil |
| original language | French , Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Wim Wenders , Juliano Ribeiro Salgado |
| script |
Camille Delafon , David Rosier , Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado |
| production |
David Rosier , Wim Wenders |
| music | Laurent Petitgand |
| camera |
Hugo Barbier , Juliano Ribeiro Salgado |
| cut |
Rob Myers , Maxine Goedicke |
The Salt of the Earth (Original title: The Salt of the Earth ) is a documentary film about the life and work of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado , co-directed by his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders .
content
The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has documented the traces of our human history on all continents over the past 40 years. As a social documentary photographer , he witnessed international conflicts, displacement, war, hunger and suffering. He kept this with his black and white photos in photo reports and photo books such as “Workers. On the archeology of the industrial age ”,“ migrants ”or“ Africa ”. Salgado became mentally ill from what he had seen and devoted himself to reforestation of an eroding area in his homeland during a creative break, which inspired him to create his photo project “Genesis”, which shows the heavenly, untouched places on earth. With this he returns to the origin of all life and reveals a homage to the beauty of our planet .
The film shows the life and work of Sebastião Salgados from the perspective of two directors: on the one hand from the perspective of his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, who often accompanied his father on his travels with the film camera, on the other hand from the perspective of the filmmaker Wim Wenders who is a photographer himself.
background
In 1990, Wim Wenders first discovered a painting by Sebastião Salgado in a gallery in Los Angeles . In a black and white photo, it shows the voluntarily hard-working gold miners in the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada in their daily work, in the middle of which a worker is leaning against a stake to rest. Enthusiastic about photography, he acquired this picture and the portrait of a blind Tuareg woman in traditional clothing. These two pictures of Salgado have been hanging over Wenders desk ever since.
The technology of the “teleprompter darkroom” was developed for the film: Sebastião Salgado sits in front of a screen with his photographs, the camera stands behind a semi-transparent mirror directly behind it and films him, so to speak, through his photographs. As a result, Salgado looks at his photographs at the same time and looks directly at the viewer. Watching and listening to him while he comments on his work at the same time creates a very intimate situation and atmosphere for the viewer.
publication
The film premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2014 .
The German premiere in the presence of Wim Wenders was celebrated on October 21, 2014 in the Lichtburg in Essen . On October 30, 2014, the two directors Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado presented their film in person at the Delphi Filmpalast in Berlin .
The cinema release in Germany was on October 30th, 2014. The release for the home theater market was on April 9th, 2015. The first edition contains postcards with photographs by Sebastião Salgado.
Reviews
“Wim Wenders' new documentary portrays an extraordinary artist in a touching way. [...] With an impressive and unique technique, Wenders brings the stories about the pictures onto the canvas and gives the audience an insight into the world of the photographer. "
“In the flow of images, the film makes it possible to experience with the senses how far humans have removed themselves in the course of mastering nature, how the forms of exploitation depend on one another. In the end, that results in more than an artist biography. It is a separate aesthetic-political intervention. "
Awards
- The Salt of the Earth was awarded the special prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes International Film Festival .
- As part of the 14th Film Art Fair in Leipzig , the film received the Gilde Film Prize for Best Documentation from the working group Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater .
- On January 15, 2015, The Salt of the Earth was nominated by the US Film Academy for an Oscar for best documentary.
- On February 20, 2015, the film won a César for Best Documentary .
Web links
- Official film website
- Salt of the Earth in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Salt of the Earth atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Salt of the Earth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 738 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Salt of the Earth . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Film data sheet The Salt of the Earth , Cannes International Film Festival 2014 (English)
- ↑ Filmkritik Salt of the Earth on OutNow.ch from October 6, 2014
- ↑ Sabine Horst: Critique of the salt of the earth. epd film, accessed October 30, 2014 .
- ↑ site International Cannes Film Festival 2014 (English)
- ↑ Filmkunstmesse 2014 website ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 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.
- ^ Oscars website
