A special evening in Castiglione Tinella with “Bogre”, the film by director Fredo Valla.
The Municipality of Castiglione Tinella, together with Associazione Contessa di Castiglione and Bottega del vino Moscato, have decided to mark this summer 2022 which has a bit of the flavor and character of the restart, with great events to address to the community but also to the many visitors that reach the country.
After the rich program of the patron saint who has returned to celebrate St. Louis in tradition, the film will be screened on Friday 24 June at 8.30 pm in the ancient parish church of Piazza XX Settembre. “BOGRE, the great European heresy”: a Chambra d’Oc, IncandenzaFilm and Lontane Province Film production; a special and important film by the director Fredo Valla, who also appears as an actor, and author of many cinematographic works, among which someone will remember “The wind makes his turn” of 2007.
The film, which is achieving great success everywhere, also sees the participation of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Olivier de Robert, Muriel Batbie-Castell, Gérard Zuchetto, Alain Vidal, Luca Occelli and Dario Anghilante. And among the many collaborators in the construction of the work, there is also the great accordionist, pianist and composer Walter Porro (in the photo), who is the author of all the music and who will be a special guest of the Castiglionese evening.
Bogre tells a long journey in the footsteps of Catari and Bogomìli, heretics of the Middle Ages spread from the Balkans to the European West. Starting from a memory linked to the use of the word bogre by his father, the director Fredo Valla and his crew embark on a journey through four lands (Bulgaria, Italy, Occitania, Bosnia) in search of cultural and religious relations between the two movements . Bogre rediscovers a history “eradicated from history books” and starting from a heresy that spanned the European Middle Ages, he proposes a reflection on our recent past marked by persecutions and genocides such as the Shoah, and on the present time with phenomena of intolerance that do not seem to come less.
Bogre is a story of ideas, religions, encounters, people, powers. A film in five languages (Bulgarian, French, Occitan, Italian and Bosnian), a coming and going and starting again to answer questions, reveal stories that have fallen into oblivion, make room for differences, enhance spirituality and distant and nearby cultures, help thinking to be critical. The coming and going, after all, was a typical movement of the Bogre of the Middle Ages, those heretics forced to flee to live, and share their ideas, in the European space long before Europe was united.
A curiosity that binds this film to the town of Castiglione Tinella is the choice of the director Fredo Valla to use footage related to a historical reenactment that was held in Monforte several years ago and made by Vittorio Manzo, a Castiglionese character who has collected a heritage documentary thanks to his passion for cinematography.
Admission to the evening is free, subject to availability.