The sleepwalking country
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The sleepwalking country |
| Original title | Terra Sonâmbula |
| Country of production | Portugal , Mozambique |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Teresa Prata |
| script | Teresa Prata Mia Couto |
| production |
Pandora da Cunha Telles António da Cunha Telles |
| music | Alex Goretzki |
| camera | Dominique Gentil |
| cut |
Paulo Rebelo Jacques Witta |
| occupation | |
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The Sleepwalking Land ( Portuguese original title: Terra Sonâmbula ) is a Mozambican - Portuguese film by the Brazilian director Teresa Prata from 2007 .
action
In a country torn and traumatized by civil war, the boy Muidinga finds a diary next to a corpse in which he is reading a story of a mother who is locked up on a ship and waiting for her boy to return. Muidinga thinks he is this boy and goes on a search. He is accompanied by Tuahir, an old man whom he meets and who takes care of him. Their journey is threatened by a lack of everything and also by all kinds of dangers, and they also need your mutual help and tricks in order not to go crazy or to give up.
reception
The calm, reflective film is a film adaptation of the story of the same name by Mozambican author Mia Couto . Between reality and dream world, the characters move in the field of tension between latent danger and human warmth, looking for a future in the midst of hopelessness. The work was received positively by criticism.
“The story of a traumatized child as an atmospheric metaphor for a country devastated by violence and cruelty. The visually powerful directorial debut, told with the help of magical realism, retains a warm-hearted, humane humor despite the tragic theme. "
The film was shown at a large number of different film festivals, including the World Film Festival of Montréal , the Festival do Rio de Janeiro, the Fajr Film Festival in Iran , the Mannheim Film Festival , the IndieLisboa or the Kerala Film Festival , where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize won.
Web links
- Sleepwalking country in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Sleepwalking Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 30, 2012