A long journey in the footsteps of
Cathars and Bogomils, heretics of the Middle Ages spread from
the Balkans to Western Europe, whose history has many
similarities in chronologically closer events, such as the
Shoah, the Armenian genocide, intolerance towards those who are
"different" and arrive in the civilized West. The documentary
"Bogre. The great European heresy" by director and screenwriter
Fredo Valla, will be screened at the Ariston cinema in Trieste
on June 18. The author will present it in a dialogue with the
journalist and writer Paolo Rumiz.
"In Occitan' bogre' means Bulgarian - the director explains- but
for centuries, the word has taken on the meaning of inept,
foolish, one who hides the truth. From the 12th century, 'bogre'
became an insult to the Cathars of Occitania, assimilated to the
movement of the Bulgarian Bogomils, from which Western Catharism
derived." The film, whose cast includes Giovanni Lindo Ferretti
and Olivier de Robert and with Muriel Batbie-Castell, Gérard
Zuchetto, Alain Vidal, Luca Occelli, Dario Anghilante, was shot
across Bulgaria, Italy, Occitania, Bosnia and in five languages
;;(Bulgarian , French, Occitan, Italian and Bosnian). The
documentary features the relationship between the two heretical
movements through the Balkans, Italy, and France, and Chambra
d'Oc - IncandenzaFilm - Lontane Province Film produces it with
the support of various partners. The history of Cathars and
Bogomils, Valla said, "is taken from the history books, but,
unfortunately, returns punctually over the centuries." The
director, who has worked with Pupi Avati on several television
documentaries, has signed, among his latest works, "Higher than
the clouds," on the enterprise of the first flyer in the Alps in
1910, Géo Chavez, and "Let's not talk about this war," focusing
on mutinies of the Italian military during WW1.
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