The Bible - Genesis

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Movie
German title The Bible - Genesis
Original title Genesi - La Creazione e il diluvio
Country of production Italy ,
Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ermanno Olmi
script Ermanno Olmi
production Franco Bollati
music Ennio Morricone
camera Ermanno Olmi ,
Fabio Olmi
cut Paolo Cottignola ,
Fabio Olmi
occupation

The Bible - The Creation (DVD and VHS title: Genesis ) is a film adaptation of the Bible from 1994 and at the same time the first film adaptation of a 13-part series whose authors and directors have set themselves the goal of reproducing the Bible - both ancient and also New Testament - to be filmed in full.

action

An old nomad tells his grandson in a shepherd's camp about the miracle of creation.

In seven days God is said to have created the earth and all life on it. God created man - Adam - on the sixth day and put him in the garden of Eden . However, being lonely, God removes one of Adam's ribs and creates a woman out of it - Eve . Together they should rule over paradise. But the snake seduces people and invites them to eat from the tree of knowledge . God had forbidden them, but the greed for wisdom is too great. Adam and Eve eat of the fruits and are thereupon banished from the Garden of Eden by God.

Eve soon becomes pregnant and gives birth to Cain and Abel . The two brothers take up the professions of tiller and shepherd . One day they will sacrifice for God; but Abel does it with a pure heart and sacrifices his best sheep to the Lord, while Cain keeps the best pieces of the fruits of his harvest for himself. God's goodwill towards Abel angered Cain. In revenge, he kills his brother and flees to the land of Nod .

Many decades later, people have multiplied and only know evil. They kill each other and pray to false gods. Only Noah and his family pray to God who is angry about the deeds of their fellow human beings. He decides to destroy his creation in a deluge . Noah, however, is supposed to build an ark in order to survive in it. Noah moves into the ark with animals, a couple from every kind of earth. The rain lasts forty days. After that, to make sure that the water on earth recedes, Noah lets birds fly out, first a raven and then a dove . While the raven returns the first time and does not return the second time, the dove returns with an olive branch in its beak . Noah and his family can leave the ark soon after. God promises never to destroy the earth again.

background

Director Ermanno Olmi waived in the implementation of the first nine chapters of the first book of Moses (Genesis) entirely on Hollywood stars and directed the miracle of Genesis and even the deluge entirely without special effects and spectacular scenes.

With the help of poetic verses and carefully selected landscape shots from Morocco , the future setting of the Bible series, he managed to arouse emotions such as love, longing and respect for nature. That this film series would be a modern series was also proven by a scene in the film in which the author puts the warning words “Respect my creation!” Into his “mouth”. At the same time, images of the Second Gulf War , which was only three years ago , the acute environmental pollution and shots from hectic, modern cities - in the case of the film New York, New York - are shown. This creates a bridge from the Stone Age to the present and draws attention to the ever-current problems of humanity.

Finding the sets and locations for this film was the most difficult, as neither the location of the Garden of Eden nor the place of residence of Noah are mentioned in the Bible. Most of the filming took place around Ouarzazate . Portraying Noah as a fisherman , for example , enabled the team to film on the Atlantic coast .

Residents of Morocco, real nomads , were hired as extras , whose way of life was therefore not acted out in the film, but rather spontaneously filmed like a documentary . Only Omero Antonutti comes from Italy and therefore lives in "modern" conditions.

The film, which was first broadcast in Germany on May 16, 1996 on ARD , was produced by KirchMedia , Beta Film and the film production company Lube Productions, which was founded especially for the series .

Fabio Olmi (cameraman and film editor) is the director's son, Ermanno Olmi .

Voice actor

criticism

“A film whose slow rhythm is convincing in the first part; in the second part (Cain and Abel, Deluge), which is more oriented towards the feature film, it falls away, but always gains density when references to the present are made. A largely successful film adaptation of the Bible without pomp and false pathos. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Bible - Genesis. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 26, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used