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La festa dei Morti (All Souls' Day)

1/11/2014

 

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È appena trascorsa la festa di Halloween e oggi, il primo novembre, in Italia, è la festa di Tutti i Santi (All Saints' Day), nota anche come Ognissanti. Domani invece, il 2 novembre, è la festa dei Defunti, o la festa dei Morti (All Souls' Day). Nel primo video in basso la simpatica Eleonora ci parla delle due feste. Il secondo filmato in basso invece è tratto da un bellissimo documentario chiamato Prove per una tragedia siciliana (Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy) del 2009, che segue il viaggio dell'attore e regista italo-americano John Turturro in Sicilia, alla ricerca delle proprie origini. Nel filmato, l'autore che ha creato il personaggio del commissario Montalbano, Andrea Camilleri, ci descrive quanto fosse sentita e come si celebrava la festa dei Morti in Sicilia all'epoca in cui era bambino. Nel filmato le sue parole sono accompagnate dalle immagini dei corpi mummificati delle catacombe dei Cappuccini di Palermo, e termina il suo racconto con una frase di una nostalgia struggente: «Lentamente i morti persero la strada di casa».

Halloween has passed and today, the first of November, in Italy, it's All Saints' Day, known also as Ognissanti (lit. each Saint). Tomorrow, on the other hand, the second of November, is All Souls' Day. In the first clip below the lovely Eleonora tells us about the two festivities. Whereas the second clip below is taken from a very beautiful documentary called Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, released in 2009, which follows the journey of the italo-american actor and director John Turturro to Sicily, in search of his roots. In the clip, the author who created the character of Inspector Montalbano, Andrea Camilleri, describes to us how All Souls' Day was such a heartfelt festivity in Sicily and how it was celebrated at the time of his childhood. In the clip his words are accompanied by the images of the mummified corpses of the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, and he ends his story with a sentence of heart rending nostalgia: "Gradually the dead lost their way back home."




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