KOMMUNISTEN (Communists)
2014 - France - Switzerland
1h10 - 1,33
Visa 140 299
A FILM BY
Jean-Marie Straub
WITH
Arnaud Dommerc, Jubarite Semaran, Gilles Pandel, Barbara Ulrich
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AWARDS / FESTIVALS
Festival de Locarno 2014 - Fuori Concorso
Viennale 2014
Festival Entrevues Belfort
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SYNOPSIS
« Communists » comprises six scenes concerning resistance to “forms of domination and violence of man on man,” including Communist prisoners who face down their Fascist interrogators during World War II ; Egyptian workers and peasants who revolt against their colonial exploiters in 1919 ; and Italian Alpine communities who in 1967 refuse to show mercy on the Nazis who butchered their families during the war. Straub focuses on the precipitous moment when men and women must choose between self-sacrifice and annihilation. He suggests that survival from oppression, and faith in the fantastical dream of a “new Earth”—the nascence of popular resistance—can perhaps come through music, the joy of a child’s touch, a walk in the country, a will of the imagination.
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TECHNICAL INFOS
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Christophe Clavert
SOUND
Dimitri Haulet
EDITING
Christophe Clavert
PRODUCER
Arnaud Dommerc (ANDOLFI)
COPRODUCER
Barbara Ulrich (BELVA FILM)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image animée
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INTERNATIONAL SALES
Belva Film GmbH
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
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