Guernica (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Guernica |
| Original title | Gernika |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 20 minutes |
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| Director | Emir Kusturica |
| script | Emir Kusturica Pavel Sykora based on the novel by Antonije Isaković |
| camera | Pavol Bernáth |
| cut |
Peter Benovský Dalibor Lipský |
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The short film Guernica is the thesis of the Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica , which he produced in 1978 during his training at the FAMU film school in Prague . The work looks at the subject of the persecution of the Jews from the perspective of a ten-year-old Jewish boy who saw the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso .
action
Erik is a professor in Prague and visits a museum with his young son Roger where a copy of Picasso's Guernica is on display. Roger asks astonished why Picasso painted the picture like this. In response, he receives that Picasso accuses the Nazis of having painted it that way. After the Third Reich invaded Prague, it was announced in the streets that all Jews had to report to the authorities and that they had to wear yellow armbands.
Although Erik and his wife try to shield Roger from the political events, the boy worries about it. He is particularly concerned about why people with big noses have to belong to the “club” whose members wear yellow armbands. His parents are called for a compulsory medical examination, where the mother tries unsuccessfully to deny Roger's existence. Meanwhile, Roger cuts out all the noses on the family photos and glues the pictures and snippets together to form a collage, the monstrosity of which Picasso's painting inspired him.
Web links
- Guernica in the Internet Movie Database (English)