Terraferma (film)
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| Original title | Terraferma |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Emanuele Crialese |
| script | Emanuele Crialese, Vittorio Moroni |
| music | Franco Piersanti |
| camera | Fabio Cianchetti |
| cut | Simona Paggi |
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Terraferma is a 2011 Italian film directed by Emanuele Crialese . It deals with the migration of African refugees who are looking for their way to Europe via the island of Lampedusa , and also describes the problems that this poses for the islanders.
action
The focus is on a family on a small island near Sicily . Grandfather Ernesto still dedicates himself to traditional fishing with his grandson Filippo. Filippo's mother Giulietta, Ernesto's daughter-in-law, also lives in his house. Her husband, Ernesto's son, died some time ago while fishing on the high seas. Giulietta is dissatisfied with her living conditions. She talks to her son Filippo about the fact that they should both go to the mainland and look for work there, but Filippo refuses. Nino, Ernesto's other son, now makes a living from tourism. He can afford a lot and gives Filippo a moped, which is immediately scrapped by the envious village youth.
One day Ernesto and Filippo meet with their boat while fishing on an overloaded raft with violently waving African refugees. They take on board some who jump in the water and swim towards them. The coastguard hurrying up, meanwhile, pushes the raft away. Most of the rescued refugees were able to leave Ernesto's fishing boat under cover of night. A pregnant refugee woman and her son are taken in at Ernesto's house, where the woman who gives birth to her baby that same night can initially stay. The next day the police are looking for the escaped refugees. She confiscates Ernesto's boat from the chicane, but does not find the refugee family in Ernesto's house.
Giulietta wants to get rid of the refugee family, but Ernesto initially keeps her in the house. Even at Giulietta, pity slowly grows for the refugee woman Sara, who, like her, misses her husband and is looking for a better life. Later we learn that the woman from the Horn of Africa came on the raft via Libya and wants to join her husband in Turin.
During a little night swimming trip with his girlfriend, refugees swim towards Filippo's boat again. He forcibly repels them with strokes of the oar and drives away in the boat. The next morning, some of the swimmers were found dying of thirst near the beach by tourists. The called police force the tourists away and block the beach. We do not find out what happens to the refugees next.
In a night drive, Ernesto wants to bring the refugee family hidden with him to the mainland, but the police control all vehicles that want to get on the ferry. They turn back. Filippo, whose conscience now plagues after seeing the refugees dying of thirst on the beach, hijacked the van without further ado after Ernesto and Giulietta got out. He drives to the harbor to take the refugee woman with her two children to the mainland on the family boat. The film ends with a long aerial shot showing the boat going out to sea in the dark of night.
background
The main locations were Linosa and Agrigento .
The film plot has a biographical reference for several actors. Leading actor Filippo Pucillo largely represented his own life story. Leading actress Timnit T. herself landed in Italy in 2009 as a boat refugee. The other boat refugees were also played by amateur actors with the same biographical background.
The Italian title of the film means "mainland". The film had its German premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2012 under the title Terraferma - Feindesland . The German dubbed version can be seen under the same title on September 4, 2013 as the German premiere on Bavarian television .
reception
On the occasion of the premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2011, the film was judged differently in the Italian press depending on the political point of view.
So far, the film has received only a weak response in the German-speaking media. In the Berliner Zeitung it was described by Anke Westphal as "too didactic". On the same occasion, Susanne Ostwald spoke in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that the film had "wooden dialogues, overburdened actors and a sedate morality". The Austrian standard described the award ceremony in Venice as "not very compelling": the film author Emanuele Crialese had "delivered a social drama that was at best a well-meaning".
When the film was released in Switzerland in 2012, the film was seen more positively in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: It has “a simple, natural symbolism, which, however, never appears simple” and shows a “fabulous, sometimes almost mythical expressivity”. The film is also viewed more positively in the lexicon of international films when it is said that the film is convincing with its “suggestive, poetic imagery”.
Awards
The film was nominated and awarded at numerous film festivals, including a. with the special jury award at the Venice International Film Festival 2011
Web links
- Official website (Italian)
- Terraferma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b You want a better life, but so do we - In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 16, 2012. Retrieved on August 7, 2013.
- ^ Loud questions of access In: Berliner Zeitung of September 5, 2011
- ↑ Once upon a time in Tehran In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 5, 2011
- ↑ Filmed descents into the nightmare man In: Der Standard from September 11, 2011
- ↑ Good and bad travelers - A film about African refugees In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 21, 2012
- ↑ Terraferma - In: Lexikon des Internationale Films Retrieved on August 7, 2013.