Torino @ Berlino: Europa Centrale [Central Europe] [OmeU] It, 2024, R: Gianluca Minucci mit Paolo Pierobon, Tommaso Ragno, Catherine Bertoni de Laet, 87 Min
EN
Europa Centrale (2024) is an atmospheric, tense Italian drama directed by Gianluca Minucci. Set entirely aboard a train in 1940, it follows a pair of exiled communists on a covert mission in a grim atmosphere of paranoia, betrayal, and ideological conflict.
The life of exiles under fascist regimes was marked not only by ideological fervor but also by loneliness, anguish, and paranoia. Similarly, the dogma of real socialism, built on the lies that led to the brutal executions of Chekists, the horror of the Holodomor, and the Stalinist purges, allowed no room for any form of divergence, thus dragging the psychosis of dissenters and every militant into its darkest and most predatory stage. Central Europe became the focal point of this abomination in its most destructive and ferocious form.
“A journey that seems suspended in space and time, wrapped in an almost sacred aura”
— La Repubblica
“A darkened fresco that recalls the aesthetic of history according to Sokurov”
— Corriere della Sera
“An odyssey that crosses a Europe on the brink of the Second World War, masterfully shot, with a swirling and engaging style”
— Taxidrivers
“Reveals a fateful destiny for Europe”
— Cinemaitaliano.info
“Twisted like a noose around the throat”
— MyRedCarpet
DE
Das Leben der Exilanten unter faschistischen Regimes war nicht nur von ideologischem Eifer geprägt, sondern auch von Einsamkeit, Qual und Paranoia. Ebenso ließ das Dogma des realen Sozialismus, das auf den Lügen beruhte, die zu den brutalen Hinrichtungen von Tschekisten, dem Schrecken des Holodomor und den stalinistischen Säuberungen führten, keinen Raum für jegliche Form von Abweichung und trieb so die Psychose der Dissidenten und aller Militanten in ihre dunkelste und räuberischste Phase. Mitteleuropa wurde zum Brennpunkt dieses Gräuels in seiner zerstörerischsten und grausamsten Form.
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