The Toronto Jewish Film Festival and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura co-present the film EARTH CRIES OUT. The Film will be introduced by Carlo Coen.
EARTH CRIES OUT (Il grido della terra)
DIRECTOR: DUILIO COLETTI
ITALY • 1949 • 52 minutes • ITALIAN
FRIDAY MAY 4 2018 • 4:00 PM • CINEPLEX CINEMAS YONGE-EGLINTON AND VIP – 1
Ten years before Paul Newman starred in Exodus, this forgotten Italian neo-realist drama on the founding of Israel was one of the first films to tell about the migration of European Jews to Palestine under British mandate. The Earth Cries Out is the story of three comrades who fought together in WW2 and become enemies in the years leading up to the declaration of the State of Israel—a British colonist, a member of the Irgun and a Haganah soldier. “Shot in black and white, with a cast of professional actors and ‘real people’ in Rome and southern Italy, The Earth Cries Out has the convincing, intimately human look, if not the loose structure, of its neo-realist contemporaries.” (Suzanne Ruta, The Forward) Subtitles courtesy of Centro Primo Levi NY. Copy preserved by Archivio Film – Cineteca Nazionale – Roma.
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CARLO COEN holds a PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Italian Cinema.
He has several publications to his credit on Italian and Indian Cinema. He delivered lectures and papers at Universities in Canada, Italy, India and Australia and taught various courses on Italian Cinema at the University of Toronto from 2006 to 2013. At present he teaches the same subject at York University.
He has been the programmer for the Toronto Italian Film Festival, the Love and Lust Toronto Film Festival and has collaborated with the Italian Contemporary Film Festival as Program Coordinator since 2015.
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