Die Hunde von Sinai (1976)

Die Hunde von Sinai: Directed by Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. With Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà. The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The images, mostly a series of Italian landscape shots, provide a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text.

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