Notturno
Synopsis
How much pain, how much life makes up the existence of people in the Middle East?
In this film – shot over a three-year period along the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan and Lebanon – Gianfranco Rosi gives voice to a human drama that transcends geographical divisions and calendar time, illuminating with encounters and images the daily life that lies behind the continuous tragedy of civil wars, brutal dictatorships, foreign invasions and interference and finally the murderous apocalypse of ISIS. But war does not appear directly: we hear it in the mournful dirges of mothers, in the stammering of permanently wounded children, in a play about the senselessness of politics performed by patients in a psychiatric hospital. Different stories, to which the narration confers a unity that goes beyond the conflicts. A street singer, dressed by his beloved, awakens the city praising the Almighty.
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Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : Les Films d'Ici, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : 21Uno Film, Stemal Entertainment
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Match Factory
- French distribution : Météore Films
Full credits (5)
- Director of Photography : Gianfranco Rosi
- Editor : Jacopo Quadri
- Sound Recordist : Gianfranco Rosi
- Foreign producer : Donatella Palermo
- Co-producers : Serge Lalou, Camille Laemlé
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Production language : Arabic, Kurdish
- Coproducer countries : Italy (69.67%), France (20.24%), Germany (10.08%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
