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Fortini/Cani

Fortini/Cani

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 30, 1977

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

53%

Original Title

Fortini/Cani

Production Companies

Straub-Huillet, Artificial Eye, New Yorker Films, Sunchild Productions, Polytel International Film, RAI

Director

Jean-Marie Straub

Description

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The images, mostly a series of Italian landscape shots, provide a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text. - Fabrizio Sabidussi