
The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of Mario Rigoni Stern. It’s snowing everywhere the Austrian trenches are so close that you can hear the enemy soldiers breathing.
A hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, maestro Ermanno Olmi describes with Torneranno i prati his vision of a conflict that cost the lives of 16 million human beings, just as it was brought back to him by the memory of his father, called to arms at 19 years of age, to find himself within the bloodbath of Carso and Piave. A drama that scarred his youth and the rest of his life, just like millions of others.
画面凝重,在信息过剩的年代,无法带来震撼,属于艺术风格老派的作品。每一帧画面都是一副油画,战壕、白雪、松树、月光、远山,天地之间这一小撮列兵的情绪与分秒,在电影里得到放大与还原。不用探讨什么深刻的意义,看了你就懂了,把自己的情绪再沉浸其中的话,看了你也就更难受了。后来看到《狐步舞》那四个列兵在宿舍的状态,你会觉得《高原激战》更为冷静与残酷。
战争是一头凶恶的野兽 纠缠不休 永无停歇
民族统一战争的伟大胜利,意大利人用一场惨烈的前线战斗溃败来纪念。 (2023.9.4. 意使馆民族统一及武装力量日放映活动)
一战电影,在严寒的冬季,大雪覆盖的高原上,意大利军与奥地利军对垒,近到似乎可以听见敌人的呼吸。不过全片没有一个镜头表现敌对方,所谓的激战,就是一轮炮轰。而更多的是表现意军军官和士兵崩溃的心态。影片把彩色片拍成黑白灰,大量的采用人物特写镜头,音乐表现也相当出色。
意大利的雪战