21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Out of Competition

Il ritorno del figlio prodigo / Umiliati

the return of the prodigal son / Humiliated

Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 64'


"… That nothing made or touched by them, that has left their hands, be exempt from the rights of some foreigner" (Text by Elio Vittorini, Le Donne di Messina, 1948-49).

"The diptych by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Il Ritorno del Figlio Prodigo and Umiliati, is based on a novel by Elio Vittorini. It is the story of a short-lived community that was constructed in Italy at the end of World War II by people from different regions. Straub and Huillet are never particularly interested in the plot of a book. Their work consists in always bringing out the tensions - in both senses of the term: differences in thought and differences in intensity of sensitivity…"
(from Jacques Rancière,
Lo strano tribunale di Straub-Huillet, in "il Manifesto," August 14, 2003, originally published in "Le Monde Diplomatique," April 28, 2003.)

Biography

film director

Jean-Marie Straub

Jean-Marie Straub (Metz, France, 1933) worked as an assistant to the film directors Robert Bresson, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir and Jacques Rivette. In 1963, he and Danièle Huillet, who became his companion in life and work, made their first film together, Machorka - Muff, based on a story by Heinrich Böll. They made their first feature-length film, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, in 1968. Since then, they have directed over thirty films, taking on writers like Friedrich Hölderlin and Cesare Pavese. The 2006 Venice Film Festival awarded them a special Lion for innovation in film language.

FILMOGRAFIA

 filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Machorka - Muff (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, cm, 1963), Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Cronaca di Anna Magdalena Bach, coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, 1968), Moses und Aaron (Mosè e Aronne, coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, 1975), Dalla nube alla resistenza (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1979), Der Tod des Empedokles (La morte di Empedocle, coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1987), Lothringen! (coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, cm, 1994), Sicilia! (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1999),Une visite au Louvre (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 2004), Corneille-Brecht (cm, 2009), O somma luce (2010), Jeonju Digital Project 2011 - Un héritier (cm, 2011).

Danièle Huillet

Danièle Huillet was born in Paris on May 1, 1936. She grew up in the country and returned to Paris around 1948. She studied at the Jules Ferry high school. She prepared for the IDHEC, but refused to write about the film Menèges by Yves Allégret, which she held to be unfit for an exam.

Cast

& Credits

Regia, montaggio/Director, film editor: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet Fotografia/Director of photography: Renato Berta, Jean-Paul Toraille, Marion Befve
Musica/Music: Edgar Varèse - Arcana (1927)
Suono/Sound: Jean Pierre Duret, Dimitri Haulet, Jean-Pierre Laforce (Dolby, mono)
Assistenti: Giulio Bursi, Maurizio Buquicchio, Arnaud Maillet, Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Rosalba Curatola (Siracusa), Aldo Fruttuosi (Ventura "Faccia Cattiva"), Romano Guelfi (Carlo), Paolo Spaziani (Primo Cacciatore), Federico Ciaramella (Secondo Cacciatore), Daniele Vannucci (Terzo acciatore), Enrico Achilli (Cataldo Chiesa), Martina Gionfriddo (Carmela Graziadei), Enrico Pelosini (Toma), Angela Durantini (Elvira La Farina), Andrea Balducci (Fischio), Dolando Bernardini (Vecchio contadino), Giampaolo Cassarino (Pompeo Manera ), Giacinto Di Pascoli (Cattarine), Gabriella Taddei (Giralda Adorno), Vittorio Vigneri (Spine)
Produttore/Producer: Straub-Huillet / Teatro Comunale Francesco di Bartolo, Buti / Martine Marignac, Pierre Grise Productions / Centre National de la Cinématographie / Werner Dütsch, Westdeutscher Rundfunk / Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Le Fresnoy)
Distribuzione/Distribution: Pierre Grise Distribution
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