''Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood'', or only ''Diaz'', is a 2012 Italian-French-Romanian drama film directed by

Daniele Vicari Daniele Vicari (born 26 February 1967) is an Italian director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Born in Collegiove, Province of Rieti, Vicari graduated from Rome's University La Sapienza in History and Critics of Cinema under Guido A ...

, focusing on the final days of the

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, when police stormed Armando Diaz, a school in Genoa. In the nighttime raid, over 300 police officers attacked activists and journalists, seriously injuring 61 and putting one in a coma.

Plot

The film focuses on the storming of the Diaz school in Genoa by the police after the

. In that building were protesters against the international summit on the night between 21 and 22 July 2001. It is based on the testimonies and reports from judicial processes. The film develops through the intertwining stories of some of the protagonists. Luca is a reporter for the Journal of Bologna. He decides to go and verify what's happening in Genoa, after the death of Carlo Giuliani. Alma is a German anarchist who participated in the fighting. Alma, Marco (a member of the Social Forum) and Franci (a lawyer for the Genoa Legal Forum) provide for the search for the missing. Anselmo is a senior activist in the Pensioners' Union. He participated in a peaceful march against the G8. Etienne and Cecile are two French anarchists: they have been directly involved in the clashes of those days. Finally Max, first assistant chief of police mobile squad of Rome: in the morning on 21 July 2001, he decided not to order a charge against the Black Block, to avoid the involvement of so many peaceful demonstrators. The destinies of all of them and hundreds of other protesters crossed the night of July 21, 2001, in the Diaz school.Diaz. Scheda e trama del film
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Cast

Many of the characters are based (in some cases maintaining the initials) to people actually inside of Diaz on the day of the blitz: the cop played by Claudio Santamaria (Max Flamini) is Michelangelo Fournier, head of the VII nucleus of the experimental mobile squad of Rome. The journalist played by Elio Germano (Luke Gualtieri, the fictional Journal of Bologna) is Lorenzo Guadagnucci, journalist of Il Resto del Carlino.G8, a Bucarest il film della Diaz
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, '' la Repubblica'', rticle in Italian/ref> UK Indymedia journalist being beaten on the street in front of Diaz is Mark Covell, who had a punctured lung and went into a coma. *

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: Luca Gualtieri, journalist * Claudio Santamaria: Max Flamini *

Jennifer Ulrich Jennifer Ulrich (born 18 October 1984) is a German actress who has starred in such films as '' The Wave'' and '' We Are The Night''. She was born in Lichtenberg, Berlin. Career Jennifer Ulrich started her actress career with ''Big Girls Don't ...

: Alma Koch, German anarchist * Davide Iacopini: Marco, organizer of Genoa Social Forum *

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: Inga * Monica Elena Birladeanu: Constantine Giornal *

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: Etienne *

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: Aaron *

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: * Rolando Ravello: Rodolfo Serpieri *

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: Marco Cerone * Antonio Gerardi: Achille Faleri *

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: Maria * Jacopo Maria Bicocchi: Silvio Pieri * Mircea Caraman: Vittorio Donati * Ioana Picos: Gilda * Micaela Bara: Karin * James Longshore: Charles * Razvan Hincu: Amico John *

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: Nick Janssen *

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: Francesco Scaron * Renato Scarpa: Anselmo Vitali

Reception

The film was presented at the 2012 Berlinale in the section Panorama and received the Panorama second audience award. Reviewing the film for Bring The Noise UK, Michael Dodd called it "one of the most compelling and uncompromising films of recent memory". Giving the movie a rare ten out of ten rating, he concluded by stating that "this is a film that simply has to be watched".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diaz - Dont Clean Up This Blood 2012 films 2012 drama films French drama films Romanian drama films Italian drama films 2010s Italian-language films Films about police brutality Films set in Genoa Drama films based on actual events Films directed by Daniele Vicari Films set in 2001 2010s French films Fandango (Italian company) films Le Pacte films