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  • Brossa (2005)
  • 70 min | Documentary
Brossa (2005)
70 min | Documentary
One night in the trenches during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Brossa heard a voice call his name. He didn't see anyone and walked towards where he thought the sound came from. A moment later, a shell hit the ground where he had just been ...See moreOne night in the trenches during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Brossa heard a voice call his name. He didn't see anyone and walked towards where he thought the sound came from. A moment later, a shell hit the ground where he had just been standing. From that moment on, Brossa wanted to be a poet. After the war, Barcelona was "a desert of expectations", according to the philosopher Arnau Puig. Franco's dictatorship had put an end to all freedom. No expectation was possible anymore. But Brossa and his friends Antoni Tàpies, Modesto Cuixart, Ponç and Arnau Puig founded a group they called Dau al Set: dice seven. Of course you can never throw a seven and that's what they wanted, in all their youthful recklessness: the impossible. In 1948, Brossa wrote the script for a short film. He was crazy about film, but didn't know anything about the practice of making films. Film was magic for Brossa. Lluis Riera was to be director and the other friends were to play roles. But the film was never made and the script appeared about 50 years later to mark the hundredth anniversary of film in a book called Anthologie du Cinéma Invisible, by Christian Janicot. The documentary BROSSA is not a portrait of an artist, but tries, from all angles, to examine the topic of why the world is occasionally moved a little. See less
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Director
Digna Sinke
Writer
Digna Sinke
Producer
Digna Sinke
Cinematographer
Peter Brugman
Editor
Albert Elings
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Jan 30, 2005 (Netherlands)

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