TOMbientato on the Adriatic coasts and with a protagonist who bears the name of a pioneer of Italian animation, Red pig It is the film to see this April 25, 2025. Cry of freedom against the fascist oppression, the Masterpiece of the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki returns to the cinema on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the liberationwith a series of special projections throughout Italy.
“Better to be a pig than a fascist,” says the protagonist Marco Pagot: the joke has become a symbol of Miyazaki’s political vision. And an animation cinema capable of talking about history, war and moral choices with a delicacy and unparalleled force. Red pig is more than a movie. It’s un pacifist hymn, a story of resistance and individual dignity, a poetic affirmation of freedom against all forms of authoritarianism.
Red pig At the cinema for April 25: the plot of Hayao Miyazaki’s film
We are in the 1920s, in an imaginary yet recognizable Italy. Marco Pagot is a former ace of military aviation, miraculously survived a mysterious accident during the First World War. Something, however, broke: disillusioned by the horror of the conflict and the winds of the regime that advance, Marco chooses to live as a Reietto. A spell transformed him into an anthropomorphic pig, and he decided to indulge that mutation as a symbolic act of refusal. He leaves the army, retires in self -es who is on the Dalmate coasts and, on board his flaming red seaplane, he reinvented the hunter of sizes that fights the pirates of the air.
But the past and the world do not forget so easily. The skies of the Adriatic become the theater of new challenges, especially when Donald Curtis, a Vanesio and American pilot snap enters the sceneally of pirates and determined to dirty pig. Around this plane duel, two essential female figures move: Gina, widow of a comrade and owner of a hotel for aviatori, who has loved Marco for years in silence; And Fio, a young and brilliant mechanic, who will help him put the plane back on sixth and perhaps also the heart.
The adventure merges with melancholy, romanticism with history, while Miyazaki builds a story as mild in the tones as it is deep in the themes. Nothing is explained – neither the origin of the curse, nor the past of Gina and Marco – yet everything is clear. Red pig It is the portrait of a reluctant hero, who met the abyss and chose to fly alonebut for this reason he stopped hoping or fighting.
A red pig scene (Lucky Red)
Hayao Miyazaki, a master of animation
Hayao Miyazaki, born in 1941, is considered One of the greatest masters of world animation. Co -founder of the Ghibli studio, has revolutionized animated cinema with films capable of speaking to each generation. After the first successes like Nausicaä della Valle del Vento (1984) e My neighbor Totoro (1988), he conquered international fame with masterpieces such as The enchanted city (2001), Oscar for best animated film, The wandering castle of Howl (2004) and the recent The boy and the heron (2023). With Red pigHayao Miyazaki signs one of his most personal works.
A melancholy fairy tale, suspended between history and legend, where love for flight merges with a bitter reflection on war and human condition. The protagonist takes its name from Marco and Gi Pagot, pioneers of Italian animation, in a tribute that seals the strong link between the author and our country.
Red pigthe program of projections for the Liberation Day
• Naples – Metropolitan cinema, 4.00 pm
• Rome – Cinema Quattro Fontane, 16.00 and 18.00
• Florence – Astra Cinema, 7.00 pm
• Bologna – Cinema Odeon, 4.00 pm
• Genoa – Sivori Cinema, 7.00 pm
• Milan – Anteo Cinema, 7.30 pm
• Turin – Eliseo cinema, 4.00 pm
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