Terraferma (Film)
- Donatella Finocchiaro: Giulietta
- Mimmo Cuticchio: Ernesto
- Filippo Pucillo: Filippo
- Timnit T.: Sara
- Giuseppe Fiorello Nino
- Martina Codecasa: Maura
- Tiziana Lodato: Maria
- Claudio Santamaria: Police Commissioner
Terraferma is an Italian film from 2011 by Emanuele Crialese. He thematesiert the migration of illegal African refugees seeking on the island of Lampedusa, the way to Europe, and also describes the resulting problems of the islanders.
Action
At the heart of a family standing on a small island near Sicily. Grandfather Ernesto devotes himself and his grandson Filippo still the traditional fishing. In his house also Filippos mother Giulietta, the daughter-in Ernesto's lives. Her husband, Ernesto's son, came some time ago while fishing on the high seas killed. Giulietta is dissatisfied with their living conditions. She speaks with her son Filippo about the fact that they both go to the mainland and there should look for work, but what Filippo refuses. Nino, Ernesto's other son, now lives on tourism. He can afford some and give Filippo a moped, but which is driven by the envious village youth immediately to scrap.
One day, Ernesto and Filippo meet with their boat while fishing on an overloaded raft violently waving African refugees. You take some, jump into the water and swim towards them on board. The hurrying Coast Guard urges the raft from however. Most of the rescued refugees can leave the fishing boat Ernesto under cover of night. A pregnant refugee woman and her son are taken in Ernesto's home, where the woman who brings the same night her baby into the world, may initially remain. The police investigated the next day after the escaped refugees. They confiscated from harassment Ernesto's boat, does not take refugee family in the home but Ernesto's.
Giulietta want to get rid of the refugee family, but she keeps Ernesto initially still in the house. Even with Giulietta slowly growing compassion for the refugee woman, Sara, as she misses her husband and looking for a better life. Later we learn that the woman from the Horn of Africa coming over Libya has come onto the raft and wants her husband to Turin.
In a small nocturnal swimming trip with his girlfriend again swim refugees to Filippos boat. He fights with strokes of the oar from violent and goes by boat from it. The next morning some of the floats are dying of thirst found close to the beach by tourists. The alarmed police forces from the tourists and locks the beach. What then happens to the refugees, we are not told.
In a nighttime drive Ernesto wants to bring the hidden to him refugee family to the mainland, but the police checked all vehicles that want on the ferry. You turn around. Filippo, the now - for the sight of refugees dying of thirst on the beach - plagues the conscience, kidnapped ado the van after Ernesto and Giulietta have dropped. He travels to the port to bring the refugee woman with her two children on the family boat to the mainland. The film ends with a long aerial photograph showing how the boat goes out to sea in the dark of night out.
Background
Main locations were Linosa and Agrigento.
The movie plot has a biographical reference for several performers. Leading actor Filippo Pucillo presented largely his own life story dar. Actress Timnit T. is even in 2009 landed a refugee boat in Italy. The other boat refugees were played by amateur actors with the same biographical background.
The Italian title of the film means " mainland". Had the German premiere of the film at the Munich Film Festival in 2012 under the title Terraferma - enemy territory. The German dubbed version can be seen under the same title on September 4, 2013 as the German premiere on Bavarian television.
Reception
The premiere at the International Film Festival in Venice in 2011, the film in the Italian press was judged differently depending on the political point of view.
In the German media, the film was previously only a faint echo. In the Berliner Zeitung he was described by Anke Westphal as " too didactic ." Susanne Ostwald was speaking at the same occasion in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of the film had " wooden dialogue, overwhelmed actor and an officious morality." The Austrian Standard described the award ceremony in Venice as " little imperative ": The filmmaker Emanuele Crialese had " delivered a best well-meaning social drama ."
" Sometimes almost mythical expressivity fable same, " He had " a simple, natural symbolism, which, however, appears simplistic in no time ," and show one: In the film start in Switzerland in 2012, the film in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung was seen, however, positive. In the lexicon of the International film, the film is positive seen when it is, the film convince through its " suggestive, poetic imagery ".
Awards
The film was nominated at numerous film festivals and awards, including with the Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in Venice in 2011