Paranza - The children's clan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Paranza - The children's clan |
| Original title | La paranza dei bambini |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Neapolitan / Italian |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudio Giovannesi |
| script |
Maurizio Braucci , Claudio Giovannesi, Roberto Saviano |
| music | Andrea Moscianese , Claudio Giovannesi |
| camera | Daniele Ciprì |
| cut | Giuseppe Trepiccione |
| occupation | |
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Paranza - The clan of children : (AKA La paranza dei bambini ., Italian for "The Paranza of children," international title piranha is) an Italian film drama by Claudio Giovannesi that on 12 February 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival premiered celebrated where it was featured in the main competition. The film is based on a bestseller of the same name by Roberto Saviano (Eng. Title: The Clan of Children ) and tells of a group of young people from Naples who, on behalf of their boss, roam the streets of the city with handguns and AK47 rifles and fear and terror spread.
action
Naples , in the present: 15-year-old Nicola makes the Sanità district unsafe with his friends of the same age Biscottino, Briatò, Lollipop, 'O Russ and Tyson . He lives with his younger brother Cristian in simple circumstances with his single mother Vittoria, who struggles to earn a living with a little cleaning. When one day he witnesses his mother having to endure a humiliating payment of protection money by the Mafia, he fraternises with Agostino, who is the same age. Agostino and his brother Limone come from the formerly influential Mafia clan Striano, but are now being harassed by the criminals in the neighborhood. The empty, luxurious apartment of Agostino's uncle Tonino, who ruled Sanità until his murder, becomes the meeting point for the youth gang.
To get money for designer clothes or a table in the local exclusive disco Joia , Nicolas Bande raids a jewelry store in the neighborhood with the help of Lollipop's sister. The robbery does not remain hidden from the local Capo Lino Sarnataro, who takes Nicola and his friends prisoner and has the stolen goods handed over to him. When Sarnataro discovers by chance that Nicola is working with Agostino Striano, he cuts off further contact between the two and takes over the young people in his service. Nicola and his friends then sell marijuana on the Piazzetta Orientale, near the university. They also come into contact with other drugs such as coke and soon collect the protection money in the neighborhood with Sarnataro's men. With the wages, the youngsters can afford designer clothes and a 500 euro table at Joia . There Nicola and his friends stand up for the attractive Letizia, who becomes his girlfriend after persistent wooing.
When Sarnataro and other Mafia members are arrested by the police at a wedding, the balance of power in the district shifts. Nicola sees his chance with three remaining capos and fraternises with Agostino again. Both steal a policeman's gun and practice with it. But an attack on the local boss Carminiello fails. Fearing revenge, Nicola forms an alliance with Capo Don Vittorio, who ruled outside Sanità, who, after hesitating, hands the group the pistols and assault rifles they need. Nicola and his friends familiarize themselves with the use of weapons via YouTube videos and manage to drive away Carminiello and another boss. While the relationship with Letizia is getting closer and closer, Nicola shoots the last remaining capo, disguised as a woman, and thus commits his first murder.
From now on, Nicolas Bande is in charge of Sanità. The youngsters collect protection money on their own, which they invest in luxury furniture, drugs, prostitutes, new mopeds or expensive evenings at Joia . A dispute with a competing youth gang in Quartieri Spagnoli ensures that Nicola can no longer visit Letizia safely. He suggests that they move to Sanità together, but Letizia's father does not recognize Nicola. Events come thick and fast when Agostino's brother Limone betrays Nicola and one of the friends kills a party guest in front of the Joia because he thought the young people were simple dealers. The Strianos separate from Nicolas group. At the same time, Nicola spends a day with Letizia on the beach. He longs to spend the summer with her in Gallipoli when both are murdered, but it fails. At the same time, Nicolas' brother Cristian is shot from behind after trying out the gang's weapons with friends. Nicola wants revenge and puts together a force of over a dozen armed youths, including the strianos. On their mopeds they go in search of their opponents.
Literary template
"No 15-year-old who becomes a criminal is solely to blame."
The film is based on the novel La paranza dei bambini by Roberto Saviano from 2016, which was published in German under the title Der Clan der Kinder . In March 2018, Saviano presented the book at the Lit.Cologne literature festival. He chose the novel form, says Saviano there, in order to better empathize with the thoughts and feelings of the young men and to be able to describe them more intensely. Biographies like those of his protagonists actually exist in Naples, he asserts. Although the plot of the novel is fictional, Saviano was inspired by reality for The Children's Clan . The summer before the Italian publication made it into the national media in Saviano's hometown of Naples as a "bloody summer", as so many people had been killed there within a few months that Gennaro Buonerba, a well-known mafioso, remarked that the city was now worse than Baghdad. Saviano's main character, Nicolas, was inspired by the biography of Emanuele Sibillo, a youngster murdered that summer who was the boss of his neighborhood and, in 2015, when he was 20 years old, killed by members of a rival clan on the street. According to his own statements, the biographies of young people like this touched Saviano: "No 15-year-old who becomes a criminal is solely to blame."
On the first page Saviano dedicates the novel to “the innocence of the guilty dead”, which is an allusion to the young protagonists who become perpetrators and victims in the course of the book. Maria-Therese Eiblmeier from Deutsche Welle describes them as young fish that are ready to go to extremes. In the course of the novel they turned more and more into ruthless criminals: "The little fish become sharks". There is hardly any room for hope in the novel, according to Eiblmeier, and the brutalization of young people seems unstoppable. Saviano also sees no promising efforts on the part of the state to end the war among the boys in the neighborhoods of Naples.
The Italian mafia observer, writer and journalist Roberto Saviano deals in his literary work and in his reports with the phenomenon of organized economic crime. Because of death threats by the Mafia, Saviano has been living under constant police protection in constantly changing locations for over ten years. The Children's Clan is Saviano's first novel after several investigative researches. With his non-fiction bestseller Gomorrah , published in 2006 , he first attracted the bosses' hatred. This book was also made into a film .
production
Bar and film title
Directed by Claudio Giovannesi . Saviano wrote the script for the film adaptation of his novel together with Giovannesi and Maurizio Braucci . The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka on behalf of Neue Tonfilm, Munich.
In the original, the title of the film, like the title of Saviano's book, is La paranza dei bambini , a metaphor that is repeatedly taken up in the novel. “Paranza” has different meanings in Italian. On the one hand, it is the name for a fighting technique with a stick. A group of people in a semicircle in Neapolitan folk music is also called this. Furthermore, it is a fishing method in which the fish are lured into the nets at night with the help of light, whereby young animals in particular fall for the mesh. In the Gulf of Naples, “Paranza” is also used as an expression for a group of all types of criminal.
Cast and publication
The young people seen in the film are amateur actors from the neighborhood.
The film was shown for the first time on February 12, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival . The next day it was shown in Italian cinemas. The documentary Shooting the Mafia was presented at the Berlinale with a similar theme . The theatrical release in Germany took place on August 22, 2019, in Austria the film opened on August 30, 2019. In early October 2019 it was presented at the London Film Festival .
reception
Age ratings and reviews
In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16. The statement of reasons for the release states that in the second half the film vividly describes the escalating spiral of violence into which the young people get, and that turf wars and acts of revenge are carried out brutally and without emotion. However, the scenes of violence are kept short and are never glorified or sensationally played out.
The film received 2.3 out of four possible stars in the international reviews of the British trade magazine Screen International and thus took 8th place among all 16 Berlinale competition films, together with Angela Schanelec's I was at home . Emin Alpers A Story of Three Sisters and Nadav Lapid's Synonymes (3.0 each) topped the ranking.
Peter von Becker from the Tagesspiegel writes that Roberto Saviano and the director and musician Claudio Giovannesi , who was involved in the script, cleverly concentrated the 400-page novel: “On a few key scenes that show 15-year-old Nicola from being the leader of an initially rather harmless gang of children Marking the drug-dealing boss of a youth clan. ”Unlike in the grandiose Gomorrah film adaptation by Matteo Garrone from 2008, a Giovannesi does not attack a Giovannesi with a swirl of images of the inferno, and the underworld of Naples is here, despite the caves, which have once again been used as an arsenal and shooting range the mountain slopes of the city, no hell world, so von Becker continues.
Susanne Lenz from the Berliner Zeitung explains that viewers see the world through Nicolas' eyes. Nicola, sometimes his innocent smile comes into the picture, often the back of his head. It was stated that La paranza dei bambini may order the first mafia movie where the hero disguises himself as a girl, even if to only commit a murder. Otherwise he internalized the eternal male role as ruler and protector, said Lenz. The fact that the guys on YouTube find out how a submachine gun works is just as age-appropriate and contemporary in the film as the fluidity of gender boundaries.
Julia Vismann from RBB writes that the conflicts in which the young people find themselves cannot be felt and that emotions can only be seen very little in the film. Their motives as well as the poverty and hopelessness of their situation cannot be seen in this babbling film. Vismann sums up: “This long-winded and far too smooth film does not do justice to the sad fate of the young clans who shoot each other in the middle of Naples. The only thing that convinces are the young Neapolitan amateur actors. "
The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young notes that most of the expected violence is off-screen and that the film is more appropriate for the television audience.
Use in school lessons
The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Paranza - The Clan of Children for the subjects German , Social Studies / Community Studies , Politics and Ethics and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Philipp Bühler writes that the film offers the opportunity for political and social studies lessons to discuss the dynamics of male youth gangs and the mechanisms of violence : “The phenomena described there are by no means limited to Naples, where the arrest of important mafia bosses leaves a power vacuum that Nicolas clique only needs to fill. In this way, the pupils can analyze their motives - for example the longing for recognition and status symbols - and compare them with their own experiences in everyday life, perhaps even in their own school yard. "
Awards (selection)
The film is in a preselection for the European Film Awards 2019 . Further awards and nominations follow.
Bucharest International Film Festival 2019
- Awarded the festival prize for the best director ( Claudio Giovannesi )
- Award for the best screenplay ( Roberto Saviano , Claudio Giovannesi and Maurizio Braucci )
- Nomination for the Festival Prize for Best Film (Claudio Giovannesi)
David di Donatello 2020
- Nomination for Best Film (Claudio Giovannesi)
- Nomination for Best Director (Claudio Giovannesi)
- Nomination for the best adapted screenplay (Roberto Saviano, Claudio Giovannesi and Maurizio Braucci)
- Nomination for the European University Film Award (Claudio Giovannesi)
Haifa International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination for Best International Film for the Carmel Award (Claudio Giovannesi)
Berlin International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination for the Golden Bear (Claudio Giovannesi)
- Awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay (Roberto Saviano, Claudio Giovannesi and Maurizio Braucci)
Nastro d'Argento 2019
- Awarded the silver ribbon for the best camera ( Daniele Ciprì )
- Nomination for the Silver Ribbon as Best Film (Claudio Giovannesi)
- Nomination for the direction of the best Italian film (Claudio Giovannesi)
- Nomination for Best Screenplay (Roberto Saviano, Claudio Giovannesi and Maurizio Braucci)
- Nomination for Best Producer (Palomar)
- Nomination for the best equipment (Daniele Frabetti)
- Nomination for the best cut (Giuseppe Trepiccione)
- Nomination for the best sound (Emanuele Cicconi)
literature
- Roberto Saviano: The children's clan. Carl Hanser Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25821-1
- Roberto Saviano: La paranza dei bambini. Feltrinelli , 2016, ISBN 978-8807032073 (Italian original edition)
Web links
- Paranza - The Clan of the children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paranza - The children's clan in the German dubbing index
- La paranza dei bambini in the program of the Berlin International Film Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Paranza - The children's clan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 190987 / K).
- ↑ La paranza dei bambini. In: kino-zeit.de. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f Maria-Therese Eiblmeier: Roberto Saviano, the Mafia and "The Children's Clan". In: Deutsche Welle, March 10, 2018.
- ↑ Cora Knoblauch: Roberto Saviano presents a new Mafia book: “The public is my best protection”. In: rbb24.de, March 12, 2018.
- ↑ a b c La paranza dei bambini. In: berlinale.de. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- ↑ Berlinale program: A preview of the highlights. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 6, 2019.
- ↑ a b Peter von Becker: "La paranza dei bambini" in the Berlinale Competition: When children become perpetrators are. In: Der Tagesspiegel, February 12, 2019.
- ↑ Start dates in Germany . In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ↑ Paranza, the children's clan. In: skip.at. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
- ↑ Piranhas. In: bfi.org.uk. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
- ↑ Reason for release for Paranza - The Clan of Children . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ↑ Ben Dalton: Two films tie for top spot on Screen's final Berlin jury grid. In: screendaily.com, February 15, 2019.
- ↑ Susanne Lenz: Berlinale competition: In “La paranza dei bambini” the mafia eats its children. In: Berliner Zeitung, February 12, 2019.
- ^ Julia Vismann: Berlinale film review. “La paranza dei bambini”: When young people become mafia bosses. In: rbb24.de, February 12, 2019.
- ↑ Deborah Young: 'Piranhas' ('La paranza dei bambini'): Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 12, 2019.
- ↑ Philipp Bühler: Paranza - The children's clan. In: kinofenster.de, August 19, 2019.
- ^ Jochen Müller: Lola-Abräumer in pre-selection for the European Film Award. In: Blickpunkt: Film, August 20, 2019.
- ↑ EFA Feature Film Selection. In: europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ↑ . In: haifaff.co.il. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ↑ Le candidature 2019. In: nastridargento.it. Retrieved July 29, 2019.