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The year is 1994 and the war in ex-Yugoslavia has been raging for three years. In Naples, a young actor called Leo has started rehearsals for a play he will stage in one of Sarajevo's small theatres, run by a director who was well-known before the war. Leo's troupe is working out of a small run-down theatre, which stands as a tiny fort in the middle of the Spanish quarter's swarming streets. The play is Aeschylus' "Seven Against Thebes", about a siege and a war of fratricide.
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Cast:
Andrea Renzi, Anna Bonaiuto, Iaia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Marco Baliani, Toni Servillo -
Original Title:
Teatro di Guerra -
Country:
Italy -
Year:
1998 - 108' Subtitles: Portuguese, English
Director
Mario Martone
Director and Screenwriter, 1958, Italy. Mario Martone began his career in the theater and was one of the co-founders of the Neapolitan group Falso Movimento, in 1977, a leading contemporary avant-garde collective. Being interested in the dialogue between different artistic expressions since early in his career, the transition to cinema came naturally in the 1990s, through films like Rehearsals for War (1998) or the historical fresco We Believed (2010), Martone questioned the place of violence and art in society. His first feature-film, Morte di un Matematico Napoletano, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1992.
