THEL Film I saw a king by Giorgia Farina It comes out today in the cinema By catapulting the viewer to the times of war and fascism and reporting the reflection a few days ago, during the Liberation Festival. The director of Friends to die does it unconventionallyputting unexpected cards on the plate.
Taken from a true story, approaches the subject through the eyes of a 10 -year -old boy who loves Sandokan’s adventures, and who faces the arrival at home of an Ethiopian prince prisoner as if it were the hero of Salgari. An antithetical vision compared to that of his father Podestà, a racist and obtuse fascist, closed in their own vision of the world.
I saw a king Film: The plot
On a 1936 day, at the time of the war in EthiopiaAbraham, an Abyssine warrior with a dark color of the skin, is confined to the villa of the Podestà Marcello family (Edoardo Pesce) and locked up in the aviary instead of the peacock. “It is a beast. The breed is race. It would prevent us allI, “says Marcello to the ten -year -old son Emilio (Marco Fiore), with a kind temperament and not at all inclined to follow the indoctrination of his father.
Of his different nature and his gaze noticed his mother Regina (Sara Serraiocco) and Uncle Fausto (Lino Musella). The child observes Abraham curiously, does not despise him at all, rather he considers him as Sandokan, his favorite hero. From that gaze Giorgia Farina plasters her film, between realism and imaginationbetween drama and possible redemption and change.
Mario Fiore in 2Ho seen a king “. (Courtesy Press Office)
The inhabitants of the small town in the Italian province In the face of that man they are incredulous. The different that arrives upsets the balance of the country. This is not the case for Emilio. He will help him, to bring him to eat at night and to defend him. Those small gestures of altruism will bring many of the characters of the film (except Marcello) to change the point of view: From Regina, a respectable wife to the ideal of her husband, to Fausto, to the teacher Gemma (Blue Yoshimi), in the grip principle towards the man who everyone despises and call “dangerous Negro”.
I saw a king: the film based on a true story
Giorgia Farina He came across the book of the journalist Guido Longobardi And he did not resist making it a film about the true story of a ras imprisoned during the fascist era. “I chose to make I saw a king because I found the extraordinary in realityin a true story that seems almost crazy to believe – said the director of Friends to die – Telling her through a child’s eyes allowed me to transform the drama in adventure and the different in wonder ».
Edoardo Pesce. (Courtesy Press Office)
The review
Set in a historical period in which fascism made its way, I saw a king challenges the laws of narration by subverting the climate of hatred Thanks to a reversal of perspective perpetrated by the imaginative gaze of a child. Emilio subverts realities; Emilio finds unexpected friendship with an Ethiopian warriorthe key to discover himself and the world around him.
Edoardo Pesce and Sara Serraiocco. (Courtesy Press Office)
For Take a road between expanses of black sprouts and cancerous follows the imagination. A perfect ally against the corrupt world of adults. Farina uses the comedy and grotesque to lead us to a world in the balance trare reality and imagination (also rendered through the animation technique). Marcello is as hateful as ridiculous in pursuing his ideal. The director clinging to Emilio’s gaze can allow himself to ridicule fascism. Emilio’s colored vision upsets the black and dramatic one that marked the story.
I saw a king: the cast
Edoardo Pesce plays Marcello. “A character who could belong to a comedy by Mario Monicelli – said the actor – During the film almost all the characters turn and evolve, The Podesta instead remains obtuse from the beginning to the end».
The little Emilio is Marco Fiore, while Sara Serraiocco interprets queena woman without a critical thinking, but who in the end will have a shot forward. Lino Musella is Fausto, brother of Regina and Emilio’s uncle. In the end he will play a decisive role, as well as the character of the teacher Gemma (Blue Yoshimi). Gaetano Bruno is the federal Trocca, another obtuse fascist of the film.
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