19/08/2013 - The only Italian film in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, starring a former Red Brigade member, has received the Don Chisciotte Award from the International Federation of Film Societies

The much discussed Sangue [+see also:
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The international association, which chooses films in festivals seen as important with the objective of diffusing them around the world, described Delbono’s film as “a brave and very personal film, which, like in the novel by Cervantes, combines the loss of ideals, death, revolutionary struggle, disillusionment and the power of art and love. The jury was especially touched by the way in which the director interweaved intimate and symbolic ties with painful and traumatic events, like the abandonment by the political class of a region devastated by earthquake, the story of a former member of the Red Brigades and the love between a son and his sick mother, and the loss of close ones.” 

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For a review of Sangue, click here. 

(Translated from Italian)