Gross sales corporate Lightdox has boarded Igor Bezinović‘s hybrid documentary “Fiume o morte!,” which premieres within the Tiger Festival phase of the World Movie Pageant Rotterdam.
The Croatian-Italian-Slovenian coproduction takes the target audience again to 1919, when the Italian nationalist poet, dandy and preacher of conflict Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the town of Fiume.
“Nowadays, the electorate of Fiume, now referred to as Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the unusual tale concerning the 16-month career in their town in a brutally factual but defiantly punk cinematic adventure,” a observation explains.
“‘Fiume o morte!’ is a movie on poetry, dynamite, cocaine, system weapons, soccer, airplanes, furnishings flying out of home windows, live shows, prisons, sunbathing, hundreds of squaddies, hundreds of thousands of bullets, never-ending speeches, a platypus and at the energy of political performativity. D’Annunzio may as smartly be regarded as its trailblazer heralding one of the crucial largest masters of ghastly political showmanship of our age.”
The movie is Bezinović’s 3rd characteristic, following “The Blockade” (2012), which gained the Oktavijan prize for Very best Croatian Documentary in 2012, and “A Transient Tour” (2017), which premiered in Rotterdam’s Vivid Long term strand in 2017.
Bezinović feedback: “By means of making this movie I sought after to get to understand the previous of my fatherland Rijeka/Fiume, but additionally to get to grasp its provide state from a brand new point of view. I made this movie with my fellow electorate and for my fellow electorate, which I am hoping we’ll be capable of retell to new generations.”
He continues: “All over this procedure I’ve met loads of my fellow electorate, who all had concepts about what this movie must be like. I’ve additionally met historians of a wide variety, from those that noticed D’Annunzio because the crazier model of Mussolini to those who noticed him because the Italian Che Guevara.
“In 1960, Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to as D’Annunzio’s career of Fiume a ‘narcissistic escapade’: D’Annunzio noticed Fiume as a private playground, as a spot the place he may experiment and follow the entirety that got here to his thoughts. By means of making this movie I sought after to stay D’Annunzio’s thought of Rijeka/Fiume as a playground, however this time the electorate of Rijeka are those who’re enjoying.”
Anna Berthollet, CEO of Lightdox, stated: “‘Fiume o morte!’ is a daring, genre-defying hybrid that masterfully unpacks one among historical past’s maximum unusual occupations with irreverence and wit. Igor Bezinović’s defiant and punk cinematic adventure demanding situations historic narratives, providing a well timed lens on nationalism and the artwork of propaganda.”
Manufacturer Vanja Jambrović provides: “We had been hoping to make a movie that effectively combines one unusual match from 100 years in the past and the difficult provide time wherein Europe faces once more a upward push of various nationalistic ideologies. We are hoping that individuals, regardless of the place they arrive from, will be capable of learn that message from the movie.”
“Fiume o morte!” is produced by way of Jambrović and Tibor Keser for Restart in Croatia, in coproduction with Erica Barbiani for Videomante in Italy, and Marina Gumzi for Nosorogi in Slovenia.
The movie has been supported by way of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Eurimages, Ministero della cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo, Fondo consistent with l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenian Movie Middle, Movie Studio Viba Movie Ljubljana, Media Programme of the Ecu Fee, Croatian tv – HRT, Slovenian tv – RTV SLO, RE-ACT Co-Building Investment Scheme, the Town of Rijeka, the Town of Zagreb, Friuli Venezia Giulia Movie Fee, ANGOA – PROCIREP and the Croatian Movie Administrators’ Guild.
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