Roberto Minervini’s narrative debut ”The damned“Audit’s US Civil War in a Movie Verite Style. Minervini, which has helped a lot of documentary films, distributed their nonfiction techniques for the feature as premiere At 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the UN some consideration program. Minervini won the Best Director Award for “The Damned” at the festival.
Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon, Cuyler Ballenger, Noah Carlson, Judah Carlson, Tim Carlson, and Bill Gehring Are Among the Actors Playing Civil War Soldiers in the feature set during the Winter of 1862. Volunteer Soldiers to the Western Territories, with the Task of Patrolling the Uncharted Borderlands.
Minervini said in a press release that “The Damned” intends to regret the tropics from other war films.
“I’ve always had a problem with war films because of the archetypes that exist in them: the idea of the fair cause, good for evil, revenge, heroism,” he said. “There has never been an approach that I would call Humane. Instead, we have archetypes that propagate false ideas and beliefs about war. It is crazy to me that people tend to trust a government – especially here in the United States but not only here – in matters of war and defense. War becomes an immobile thing and the war hero becomes something sacred.”
“The Damned” also has a topicality to it in the midst of the current American political climate. “This movie is strongly informed by my previous work, safe and by my experience of living in the south for more than a decade,” Minervini said. “It was a very conscious choice to go back to a moment where many of these roots were planted: the large gap between north and south, Christianity, a kind of poisonous masculinity. I wanted to understand how these issues remain, so there is still a lot of nostalgia for the civil war, how that time formed a new society. The US Army was mercenaries who went out without fully grabbing the cause of a country in shambles, people took pages, sometimes geographically, sometimes opportunistic.
“The Damned” is produced by Paolo Benzi for Okta -Movies, Denise Ping Lee and Roberto Minervini for Pulpa Film and Paolo del Brocco for Rai Cinema. Teresa Mannino, Jean-Alexandre Luciani and Annette Fausboll Executive produce.
“The Damned” premieres in the theaters on May 16. Check out the trailer below.
