IFIGENIA IN AULIDE

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IFIGENIA IN AULIDE

IFIGENIA IN AULIDE
by Tonino De Bernardi
Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Duration: 90'


Iphigenia in Aulis read and played in Greek language, in Amarynthos on Evia island in front of Aulis’ land. The actors live in the present also common life of island in summer and the camera looks for all and shoots faithfully. This operation is made with the present’s consciousness that is revealed by the refugees’ presence. Agamemnon leads the Greeks sailing for Troy. They want to avenge his brother Menelao’s honor, but they can’t sail... Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, and Iphigenia, their child... Who are we? We are them and they are us.

Biography

film director

Tonino De Bernardi

(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).

Declaration

film director

«Ifigenia in Aulide is a tragedy of power and of the present day. Iphigenia is the sacrificial victim of her domineering father, like every victim. But the movie is also about our present day, and I want to think that the spectators will see it that way, too. Greek tragedy has been present in all my movies, from the archetypes of the underground scene to today. The Greek set of Ifigenia is thanks to Nikos Koletsos and Sandra Bosco, who for years have welcomed us at Amarynthos. The film is dedicated to Enrico Ghezzi (and to Fuori Orario), who gave me visibility on nighttime TV.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, photography
Tonino De Bernardi
soggetto/story
Tonino De Bernardi, dall’omonima tragedia di Euripide/from the play of the same title by Euripides
montaggio/film editing
Maicol Casalemusic/music
Lachrymae Antique di/by John Dawnland, Marika Papagikainterpreti/cast
Alcmene Kirìkou, Elene Athanasopoulos, Demos Koletsos, Christos Karavas, Mariella Navale, Sandra Bosco, Despina, Nikos Koletsos produzione/production
Lontane Province Film Italy
coproduzione/coproduction
RAI 3 Fuori Orario

contatto/contacts
Torino De Bernardi
toninodebernardi@libero.it
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