Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 56'
Turin, the Murazzi bank of the Po. An actor reconstructs the tragic events of the death of Abdellah Doumi, forced to drown in the waters of the Po by a pack of "normal" youths one night three years ago. Another episode is recollected - the death of Khalid, another young Moroccan who was forced to drown two years before Abdellah in that same Murazzi area. The images of Porto Palazzo market follow. This is the area where there is the largest multiethnic concentration. It is an area of the disinherited, where there is widespread lawlessness, indifference, and solidarity. It is frequented mostly by foreigners who live homeless under frightening hygienic conditions. Finally we see images of the "Center for the Temporary Detention of Immigrants", the so-called "lager" of Corso Brunelleschi.
"The death of Abdellah is the pretext for describing the present situation in a city and in a society where people still talk of discrimination and about rights denied and abused, where people can muster up their racist sentiments and posit the equation - 'immigrant = criminal'. Today is a day in which many people cannot reach living conditions that allow them a free and dignified existence" (Armando Ceste).
Biography
film director
Armando Ceste
Armando Ceste (Turin, 1942), after several experiences in underground cinema (his first short film, La lezione, was screened at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1969 in Turin), in the beginning of the 70's he is one of the founders of Collettivo Cinema Militante in Turin. In the last years he has made several works, some of them in collaboration with the Archivio Audiovisivo del movimento Operaio e Demovratico in Rome. He has been artistic director at Valsusa FilmFest, film festival on the themes of historic memory and environment defense.
FILMOGRAFIA
La lezione (1969), I migliori anni della nostra vita (1987), Donato (1987), Nosferatu, ogni notte di fronte a me (1988), Das Rastel einer Strasse (1988), Morire d'amore (1988), Recita (1990), L'ultimo nastro (1991), Lontano dal golfo (1991), Jean-Marie Straub, la resistenza del cinema (1991), Finale di partita (1992), Marzo 1973 - I giorni della Fiat (1993), Due o tre cose (1994), Aria di golpe (1994), Milano 25 aprile (1994), Mai tardi (1996), Anna Karina. Il volto della Nouvelle Vague (1996), Le parole sono importanti (1996), Jean-Marie Straub. Lezione di cinema (1998), Viaggio alla fine del mondo (dove le storie vanno a finire) (1998), Rosso/Askatasuna (a proposito di un primo maggio di guerra) (1999), Romeo & Giulietta. Il gioco del film (2000), Abdellah e i suoi fratelli (2000), Erri De Luca. Dopo Genova (filastrocche sgangherate) (2001), Libera terra (2002), Fiatamlet (2003) Variazioni (doc, 2004).
Cast
& Credits
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Armando Ceste, Beppe Rosso.
Director of photography: Luciano D'Onofrio.
Editor: Giorgio Mari.
Sound: Elena Denti.
Music: 99Posse.
Cast: Beppe Rosso, Ali Solman, Modou Gueye.
Production company and Italian distribution: AC/Cinema&Video, via Accademia Albertina 10, 10123 Torino, Italia, tel. e fax +39-011-8170250, e-mail arceste@tin.it.
Director of photography: Luciano D'Onofrio.
Editor: Giorgio Mari.
Sound: Elena Denti.
Music: 99Posse.
Cast: Beppe Rosso, Ali Solman, Modou Gueye.
Production company and Italian distribution: AC/Cinema&Video, via Accademia Albertina 10, 10123 Torino, Italia, tel. e fax +39-011-8170250, e-mail arceste@tin.it.