Os Filhos de Ivanovo
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Os Filhos de Ivanovo |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese , Russian |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ivan Dias |
| script | Manuel Rocha |
| production | Ivan Dias |
| camera | João Duque |
| cut | Jorge Carvalho |
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Os Filhos de Ivanovo (dt .: The Children of Ivanovo) is a documentary of the Portuguese producer and director Ivan Dias from the year 2003 .
action
In 1933 textile workers in Ivanovo built a home for children from war and civil war zones, the Internacionalny Dom (international house). The home of the International Red Aid , known under the abbreviation Interdom , was later given school facilities. A few dozen Portuguese children were also sent there by their parents, mostly imprisoned or monitored communist oppositionists from the repressive Estado Novo regime. The Portuguese José Serra lived there from 1968 to 1974 when the Carnation Revolution overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship. Serra visited the house on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the Interdom and the Portuguese director Ivan Dias shot this documentary with him.
Dias and Serra use archive recordings and experience reports of former residents of the Interdom to show the origin and life of the home, but also its administrative and internal changes since perestroika . José Serra speaks to today's schoolchildren and some of his former schoolmates of various nationalities in their second mother tongue, Russian. In her memories and explanations, the nostalgia of a slightly different childhood, described as sheltered and in solidarity , is also mixed up . Today's facility, threatened with closure, and the problems among today's children living there are shown, which, despite all educational efforts, can not rule out drug abuse and a lack of prospects. Local politicians, former students and teachers are also interviewed, and finally, the fact that the school has been prevented from being closed for the time being is shown through the integration of the school into the central state school system.
reception
The film was shown on RTP public television on June 28, 2003, marking the 70th year of Interdom's existence.
Os Filhos de Ivanovo was released on DVD in 2010 by ZON / Lusomundo (No. 1786/2010). A reunion at a meeting of various former students can be seen as bonus material. Other films have also been made on the subject, including the German production Interdom by Iraqi director Nasir Al-Jezairi from 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blurb of the DVD case and statements in the film, ZON / Lusomundo 2010
- ^ Article on the film on the website of a Portuguese study group on Communism, accessed on October 14, 2013
- ^ Page of the film Interdom on the website of the Frankfurt International Film Festival, accessed on October 14, 2013