Battlefield

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Battlefield it's a movie with Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giovanni Scotti, Vince Vivenzio Full cast. Directed by Gianni Amelio. Original title Campo di battaglia, runtime 104 minutes. Genres Drama, History.

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The battle between the lanes of

Diego Cineriflessi

It begins with a beautiful, tense, cruel and distressing merry-go-round with death in Battlefield, the latest work by Gianni Amelio, one of the few greats of our contemporary cinema. A sequence shot around a pile of deaths that becomes hope of life... perhaps... From here begins the story of the Italian victory in the First World War, a victory that cost millions of young lives and the suffering of entire populations who when the battle with the enemy was coming to an end they had to fight the one with the Spanish. The film thrives on great scenes: the initial one I wrote about before, the shooting of the Apulian soldier, the pursuit of the doctor by those who want to be pardoned. Moments of great cinema that cannot leave you indifferent. However, Amelio struggles to keep these scenes united. The screenplay, which lives in the remote past echoing the recent past, does not always manage to maintain the necessary level and, between a few too many repetitions and a tiring final part, it does not prove to be up to the level of direction. Borghi in Venetian style is not convincing, but Battlefield, which entered competition at the last Venice Film Festival, still remains a work capable of asking questions. It's one of those films that tells us without forcing that the world is never just black and white and being on the right side is never easy, because sometimes it's difficult to even know which side is the right one. Read all

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These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he not only takes care of soldiers who arrive from the massacre of the front, but also he fights simulation and self-harm of those who hope to be dispensed, by sending them before the Military Court. If Stefano, in fact, does his utmost to heal soldiers and send them back to fight, Dr. Giulio Farradio makes them ill, or helps them to self-injure seriously enough to be exonerated. The two doctors, who went to university together and were great friends, they not only (secretly) challenge each other on a professional level, but also on the sentimental one: they are both linked to Anna, a courageous nurse with a strong character. But when the great ‘Spanish’ fever epidemic arrived in 1918, the time for love, politics and science ends up getting confused dangerously...