Padre Padrone
- Saverio Marconi: Gavino ( old)
- Omero Antonutti: Father
- Marcella Michelangeli: Mother
- Fabrizio Forte: Gavino ( young)
Padre Padrone - My Father, My Lord (Original Title: Padre Padrone ) is an Italian film directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani of 1977, which describes the gradual liberation of a young man from years of oppression by his father. The literary work is the autobiographical novel Padre padrone Gavino Ledda of.
Content
Gavino, the son of a Sardinian family, is forced by his abusive father at the age of six years, to leave school to herd the sheep. So he spent his youth largely deposited in Sardinia inhospitable mountains. Only at the age of 20 years starts his eruption from isolation and servitude. In the military, he learns to read and write and a passion for literary writing. Then he takes a literary study on against the massive resistance of the Father, from which Gavino but can abnabeln more and more. After graduation, he returns to the village of his parents - there, nothing has changed.
Background
Gavino Leddas autobiographical novel Padre padrone is the literary source of the film. In it the writer originating from Sardinia has its marked by extreme bondage and isolation youth, the subsequent realization and the beginning of his college career described.
Criticism
The film of the brothers Taviani applies to the art of film than what Leddas novel for the literature and in particular for the development of novel means: An impressive work on the oppression of man, but for which, if an outbreak is difficult possible. My father, sir, has been honored with several European film awards, including the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival of Cannes. Both awards at the same time had by that date may still not win a movie.
The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave this film the title " Especially Valuable ." In the grounds of the FBW report states, in particular: The film, which leaves a strong impression documentary, yet the free processing of a novel. But precisely in this combination of document and artistic design he gets an inte [ ... ] nsität, which allows the emancipation of a human to the tradition of his culture, compared with the compelling power of the family, against the enslaving lack of education by and witness. This is supported by the artistic means, the careful, reflected use its effect even increased: as here music and sounds are used for the representation of a living world, such as language will be more than just a vehicle of communication, but understanding made possible or impossible - that enhances those unity of design elements that are almost unnoticed, but intense, illustrates the theme of the film.