Orgosolo bandits

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Movie
German title Orgosolo bandits
Original title Banditi a Orgosolo
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1961
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Vittorio De Seta
script Vittorio De Seta
Vera Gherarducci
production Vittorio De Seta
music Valentino Bucchi
camera Vittorio De Seta
Luciano Tovoli
cut Jolanda Benvenuti
occupation
  • Michele Cossu
  • Vittorina Pisano
  • Peppeddu Cuccu

The bandits of Orgosolo (Original title: Banditi a Orgosolo ) is an Italian film by the director Vittorio De Seta from 1961 in black and white, which is counted to the epoch of Italian neorealism . Vera Gherarducci wrote the screenplay together with the director, who had already made two documentaries on the same topic in the 1950s: Un giorno in Barbagia and Pastori ad Orgosolo . The film premiered in August 1961 at the Venice International Film Festival . In the Federal Republic of Germany he could be seen for the first time on September 22, 1964 in the program of the First German Television. The actors are all lay people from Sardinia , where the story is set.

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The Sardinian shepherd Michele, who also owns his mother's mortgage- backed house in addition to his flock , longs for the moment when he will one day be free from debt. But it turns out differently when five bandits show up with stolen pigs. The honest Michele refuses to eat with them at the table. The Carabinieri, however, consider him an accomplice because on the one hand they find the stolen pigs of the fled bandits with him and on the other because Michele is silent about the bandits' escape. Since they also shot a Carabinieri, Michele is now being hunted down as a supposed murderer. He does not want to wait for a process because he cannot and does not want to separate from his herd. So he has to flee with his brother and the sheep into the rough, vegetation-poor mountains. The sheep, however, do not survive the hardships of this flight. In order to be able to cover his debts, Michele now really becomes a bandit: he ambushes another shepherd and steals him from his flock. Perhaps the victim has to become a thief if he does not want to give up his livelihood.

The film is inspired by a study by the Italian ethnologist Franco Cagnetta. He lived in Orgosolo from 1950 to 1954 to do field research there. Excerpts from his work were published in the magazine Nuovi Argomenti in 1954 under the title Inchiesta su Orgosolo . This brought the author to court for "denigrating the army and the police and spreading news that could endanger public order". The full study was not published in Italy until 1975 ( Banditi a Orgosolo , Guaraldi publishing house). Previously the text was only published in translations, first in France in 1963 ( Bandits d'Orgosolo , Buchet / Chastel publishing house), then in Germany in 1964 ( Die Banditen von Orgosolo , Econ-Verlag, translation from French).

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The lexicon of international films drew the following conclusion: “ Designed in a documentary style for a sensitive report on people and their living conditions in the interior of Sardinia.” The Protestant film observer judges: “The great film work, which is equal to the top achievements of neorealism, makes through its precise report on Sardinian living conditions clearly shows the connection between social order and fate without ever slipping into cheap fatalism. Strongly recommended for ages 16+. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 210/1966, pp. 402–403
  2. ↑ Source: Imprint and introduction of the German book.
  3. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 265