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The director who first dared to tell the story of the Istrian exodus
When it was released in cinemas in 1948, "La città dolente" had little success, but Mario Bonnard's work later became a valuable document on the exodus from Pola and on the conditions of Istria in the immediate post-war period, when in Zone B the Yugoslav military administration actually manifested itself as the first stage of an increasingly obvious annexation to communist Yugoslavia well before the official decisions of the Peace Conference. Free -...
“The City of Sorrows” streaming for free
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, celebrated on February 10, starting from Sunday, February 7, Mario Bonnard's La città dolente, made in the autumn of 1948 and released the following spring, will be available for free streaming on www.adessocinema.it. Included in the list of "100 Italian films to save", the project conceived by the Giornate degli Autori, the film was restored in 2008 by the Istituto Luce in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale and La Cineteca del Friuli and presented the same year at the Venice Film Festival. The film, the most significant on the theme of Istrian exiles, shot in the aftermath of the exodus that...
Cinema from the Eastern Border at the Venice Film Festival
Tuesday 8 September at 14.30 pm at the Hotel Excelsior / Spazio Regione Veneto Lido di Venezia – Film Festival Presentation of the book La città dolente – Il cinema del confine orientale by Alessandro Cuk Speakers Massimo Caminiti (President of CINIT) Lorenzo Codelli (Vice President of Cineteca del Friuli) Alessandro Cuk (Author of the publication) Free access, max 30 seats due to distancing provisions A CINIT Cineforum Italiano event In collaboration with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia When talking about a filmography connected to the eastern border, the first film to take into consideration is precisely La città...
