Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
- Claudio Santamaria: Max Flamini
- Jennifer Ulrich: Alma Cook
- Elio Germano: Luca Gualtieri
- Davide Iacopini: Marco
- Ralph Amoussou: Etienne
- Emilie Preissac: Camille
- Fabrizio Rongione: Nick Janssen
- Renato Scarpa: Anselmo Vitali
- Mattia Sbragia: Armando Carnera
- Aylin Prandi: Maria
- Sarah Marecek: Inga
Diaz - Do not Clean Up This Blood ( Original title: Diaz ) is an Italian- French- Romanian drama from 2012 by Daniele Vicari. It was presented at the 2012 Berlinale in the Panorama section and was awarded the second prize of the audience section. The film presents the storming of the Diaz school in Genoa by the police after the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 from different perspectives dar.
The film is based on court documents and interviews with witnesses. Since dragged the proceedings against the police officers involved over eleven years, also working on the film was delayed accordingly. Filming was finally in June 2011, the Diaz school was reconstructed for the film in Bucharest.
Action
At the G8 summit in Genoa, an enormous police presence represents the peaceful protesters against. The police are coming under increasing pressure as the autonomous block can no longer be pushed back. Most police officers seeking to prudence, but in some places it is already open confrontations. After the death of a demonstrator, the mood heats up further and the number of arrests increases. Employees Social Forum have their hands full trying to take care of prisoners and missing. When a bottle of a police car hits, the Diaz school, which had served the Social Forum as a dormitory for demonstrators and a basis for press and first aid, stormed into the night with immense brutality. Many of the attendees are ruthlessly beaten up and seriously injured. During the ensuing review there are further attacks, in which also participate superiors.
Criticism
" Diaz - Do not Clean Up This Blood is a feature film, which converts the testimonies of reported events in disturbing images. [ ... ] It takes as a spectator for a while to find your way in the narrative of the film, but then it becomes more and more part of the action. [ ... ] The brutal noise with which the police swinging away at unarmed people, they can be injured, some seriously, and later torments with obvious pleasure and humiliated, has whether the underlying authenticity of a strong emotional impact. An important film that leaves many questions unanswered, the motivation for research and calls for attention. "
" Mounted between the atmospherically dense scenes Vicari archive material. The beatings battle in the school takes agonizingly long and is otherwise hardly bearable. And rightly so: These events have to stay in our historical consciousness. "