IL SANGUE VERDE - THE GREEN BLOOD
Italian Portraits and Landscapes
Italy 2010, 57’, minidv, colour
directed by Andrea Segre
cinematography Luca Bigazzi, Federico Angelucci, Matteo Calore
editing Sara Zavarise
music Piccola Bottega Baltazar
producer Andrea Segre
production ZaLab
via Terracina 3 00177 Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 06.89016879
info@zalab.org
www.zalab.org
co-production Aeternam Films
website ilsangueverde.blogspot.com/
synopsis
The film captures the voices, faces and stories behind the demonstrations that in January 2010 in the small Calabrian town of Rosarno brought to light the deplorable and unjust condition of thousands of African laborers. Italy became aware of them, became scared and reacted violently: Rosarno was subsequently “evacuated” and the problem “solved.” “I didn’t want to present the surface, regardless of its importance, of the painful, dramatic exploitation of immigrant workers and the accompanying racism, but to into enter the depths of those who live and think this situation.” (Andrea Segre)From Rosarno without fury. Sent back by force after the Calabrian riots of this January to their Casertano-Roman limbo; suspended between work and their rights, battles and beatings, the State and the ‘Ndrangheta; subjected to being hunted down and evacuated, a governmental solution and collective silence – the seasonal tomato pickers, the Africa that is among us (and a Calabrese mayor, every honor to him, who is not one of “them"), are gathered and captured by Andrea Segre – who has already told numerous migratory stories – for this important documentary constructed around “two souls: the spoken thought and the depiction of a territory.” Seven Central African "brothers" are presented through a directorial approach that is never pitying, always curious and attentive. Whose rhythms of the street, voices and images of “us” 50 years ago reveal a dark landscape still wrapped in socio-economic clouds. (Maurizio di Rienzo)
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