BURMA VJ - Reporter I et lukket land
BURMA VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country Anders Østergaard
mercoledì 16, h 21.00, Parco, Piazza Grande
BURMA VJ - Reporter I et lukket land
BURMA VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country
Paese/Country: Denmark
Anno Produzione Film: 2008
Formato/Format: DigiBeta
Durata/Running Time: 84'
Produzione/Production: Magic Hour Films
Produttore/Producer : Lise Lense-MØller
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Anders Østergaard, Jan Krogsgaard
Montaggio/Editing: Janus Billeskov Jansen, Thomas Papapetros
Fotografia/Cinematography: Simon Plum, Burmese VJ's
Sound Editor: Martin Hennel
Musica/Music: Conny Malmqvist
Distribuzione/Distribution: GA&A
Il documentario è una delle poche testimonianze della brutale repressione del regime militare in Birmania: un gruppo di reporter birmani segue i monaci buddisti nella loro marcia pacifica contro la dittatura. Migliaia di persone escono spontaneamente di casa e si riversano nelle strade come un fiume in piena. Si uniscono ai monaci e, insieme a loro, si fermano nelle piazze e assistono ai canti e alle preghiere buddiste. La giunta militare risponde con posti di blocco, coprifuoco, manganellate e arresti. Giornalisti e stranieri vengono espulsi, il paese viene chiuso al mondo. I giovani reporter birmani, camuffando le loro telecamere e a rischio della propria vita, tornano nelle strade. Strade ora piene di carri armati dove poliziotti in tenuta anti-sommossa picchiano selvaggiamente e l'esercito spara sulla folla. Uno dei reporter riesce a fuggire in Tailandia, e da qui questi filmati straordinariamente audaci intraprendono il viaggio segreto fino in Danimarca. Anders Østergaard, il regista, racconta come siano arrivati nelle sue mani.
This documentary is one of the few testimonies of the brutal repression by Burma's military regime: a group of Burmese reporters follow the Buddhist monks in their peaceful march against the dictatorship. Thousands of people leave their houses spontaneously and flow through the streets like a river breaking its banks. They join the Buddhist monks in their hymns and prayers. The military junta reacts with streets blocks and curfews, and bludgeoning and putting the demonstrators under arrest. Journalists and foreigners are expelled and the country is closed off. The young Burmese reporters come back into the streets, camouflaging their cameras and risking their lives. The streets are now full of tanks, as the riot police savagely beat people, and soldiers fire on the crowd. One of the reporters manages to flee to Thailand, from where these most audacious shots start their secret journey to Denmark. Filmmaker Anders Oestergaard tells us how they have come to him.
Anders ØstergaardAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1965
Paese/Country: Denmark
Biografia/Biography:
Anders Østergaard was born in 1965 in Copenhagen and graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in 1991. After five years in advertising and public relations, he wrote and directed his first documentary, Johannesburg Revisited. An international breakthrough followed in 2004 with Tintin and Me, and in 2006 he launched Gasolin' - the best-selling documentary in the history of Danish cinema. Both Tintin and Me and Gasolin' won the Bodil Award for the best documentary film of their year.
Filmografia/FilmographyTintin et moi, Denmark, 2004, doc
Gasolin, Denmark, 2006, doc
Burma VJ, Denmark, 2008, doc
