Venezia 81: Amelio e Borghi raccontano ‘Campo di Battaglia’

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(Adnkronos) - Il film italiano in concorso alla Msotra del cinema. Il regista: “Se bastasse un film avremmo risolto tutto”.

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00:00I have a question for both of you.

00:04The wounds of the war, even after a century, are still felt.

00:09We are in the face of a third world war.

00:13What echo of the past do you hope that the battlefield can awaken in today's consciousness?

00:20If a film was enough, we would have solved everything.

00:24Unfortunately, films are small things compared to the interests of power.

00:33Because wars are born from the powerful.

00:38Wars are born from the desire for conquest.

00:42Both the current wars and the wars that are far away in time.

00:49The first world war was particularly a war almost at the table,

00:57where Italy sat down with its allies, a little exchanged, etc.

01:05But it was won, it is said, with the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people.

01:18They were all innocent.

01:21Not only civilians, but the soldiers who went to battle were innocent.

01:27They were 19-20-year-old boys who had no training.

01:35For the first time, they fought hand-to-hand with a rifle.

01:42The war that is not seen in the film is very much told inside a hospital,

01:51where these wounded boys arrive every day.

01:58And there are two doctors, two friends, who have two different ideas on how to heal them.

02:08Either heal them because they must return home,

02:13or heal them because they must return to fight.

02:17We don't tell anything else, because it is a film that touches feelings that go beyond time, in my opinion.

02:27It touches things that concern us and thoughts that we have had many times,

02:34and questions to which we may not yet be able to give an answer.

02:40It is very important, even without making it reach a dimension as important as that of war.

02:46I think I have often spoken today about the importance of education and the possibility of being educated.

02:54I don't know how much it is Roman, or even used in other parts of Italy,

03:01who says that you have to know how to be in the world,

03:05that is, the way we decide, who we decide to be when we wake up in the morning.

03:10As for the character, he does not give up his human part,

03:16but the fulcrum of the way we tried to put the character in the scene is precisely this.

03:21How human it is, however, to take away the sight of a person, promising him salvation.

03:28And it is the contradictory that is in the film, which was the basis of all the settings,

03:33of the details and nuances that we tried to do in the characters.

03:36Because it was important for me, I hope for us, to make a film that told a story,

03:40where the characters were extremely rigorous and precise,

03:43but did not give the viewer the opportunity to say,

03:46perfect, I understood from whom I have to be, and who does the right thing and who does the wrong thing.

03:51Because it allows us, in this way, to get out of the room and ask ourselves a series of questions,

03:55to understand what we would have done instead of our protagonists.

03:58And this, in my opinion, is a very important thing for cinema.

04:01Then, as a human being, I try to do my best,

04:05and I think I'm a good person, but I also do a lot of bullshit, I think.

04:10And then, you know, the subjectivity of our actions depends on the context,

04:14on the people we meet.

04:16It is a whole thing that only salvation is found in the fact of continually asking ourselves

04:20what is the right thing to do,

04:22and hoping that either someone will tell us what it is,

04:24or that in some way we will be able to find it ourselves, I don't know how.

04:28I don't know, they tell me that I have a good ear,

04:31they noticed it also with the music and also singing,

04:34so I'm in tune, so they give me instruments,

04:36and after a week I can play things.

04:39I put the fact of the dialects together with a series of challenges that I like to face,

04:44to try to create characters that have a very strong identity.

04:49Because I say that in the end, who really speaks only Italian,

04:53in intimacy, in this world? Few people, in short.

04:56So it's nice to have the opportunity to make nuances.

05:00I don't know, now it's been a long time since I've made a film in Roman, for example,

05:03but I'm sure that when I do it again, they'll tell me that I only recite in Roman,

05:06so in reality, since the external point always leaves the time I find,

05:10I understood, I just have fun and then I don't care.

05:14Maybe it depends on the fact that I have an age.

05:17I think about the past not with nostalgia,

05:22but having lived it, I probably know it better,

05:27so I choose to talk about things that belong to me.

05:34I didn't make the First World War,

05:37I was born during the Second World War,

05:40but in a way, the gaze that looks at the past is always directed at the future.

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