Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) ( Diaz ) ( Diaz: Do not Clean Up This Blood )

Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Diaz
Alternate Title: Diaz: Do not Clean Up This Blood
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Daniele Vicari

Written By:
Daniele Vicari

Actors:
Claudio Santamaria ..... Max Flamini
Jennifer Ulrich ..... Alma Koch
Elio Germano ..... Luca Gualtieri
Davide Iacopini ..... Marco
Ralph Amoussou ..... Etienne
Fabrizio Rongione ..... Nick Janssen
Renato Scarpa ..... Anselmo Vitali
Mattia Sbragia ..... Armando Carnera
Antonio Gerardi ..... Achille Faleri
Paolo Calabresi ..... Francesco Scaroni
Francesco Acquaroli ..... Vinicio Meconi
Alessandro Roja ..... Marco Cerone
Eva Cambiale ..... Donata Stranieri
Rolando Ravello ..... Rodolfo Serpieri
Monica Barladeanu ..... Constantine

Synopsis:

Daniele Vicari's searing rendition of the events surrounding the horrifying and still controversial police raid at the Diaz Pascoli School in Genoa during the 2001 G8 Summit was one of the most hotly debated films at this year's Berlin Film Festival. The summit was drawing to an end; although there had been numerous clashes between the police and the many protesters who had descended upon the city, things had been calm for hours. Around midnight, dozens of uniformed police officers arrived at Diaz, a temporary shelter for the many international protesters, as well as a site for various social forums. For the next two hours, the police moved down its hallways, indiscriminately attacking everyone they could find, sending dozens off to the hospital or a detention center. Described as the greatest European human rights tragedy since World War II, the events at Diaz continue to fester in Italian politics-a terrible wound that still has not been healed.

An Italian-Romanian co-production, Diaz is named after the temporarily vacant city-center school used by protest-groups as makeshift base and dorm during the mid-summer economic conflab. A Euro equivalent of Stuart Townsend's commercially-disappointing G8 picture Battle in Seattle (2007), it features a multinational, multi-lingual cast playing the bohemian twentysomethings on the receiving end of the carabinieri's boots, fists and nightsticks. Among the sprawling ensemble - including Italian marquee-draw Elio Germano as one of several admirably-heroic journalists - the closest to a lead is Claudio Santamaria's Max, , who's among the very few of the boys in blue to be depicted as anything other than a bloodthirsty, Fascistic thug.

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood, or only Diaz, is a 2012 Italian-French-Romanian drama film directed by Daniele Vicari, focusing on the final days of the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. Armando Diaz is the name of the school in Genoa that was the target of a nightly raid by 300 police officers against activists and journalists. Amnesty International, quoted in the movie, refers to these events as: 'The most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since the Second World War.'

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 November, 2012.

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