There is one moment of spontaneous music coming just after the rescue of the young Nigerian boys when so many died at the bottom of the only boat we actually see being rescued in that documentary film. The very fast shots of the dead bodies lying at the bottom of that boat do not last long but cannot be forgotten.
Giancarlo Rosi followed the group to their inland shelter and one of the boys started singing an incantation to express his gratitude to the team and the film maker, also towards God who did not take their lives… His simple song is accompanied by the other young boys around him almost chanting together and it is so peaceful after the violence of the death of the others, peaceful and terribly painful.
This chant is deeply moving and true, nothing like the prepared songs from the radio on the island.`
I cannot go back to this incantation because I did not tape the film the night I wached it …and in that precise moment which is not long in the course of the story which is being told, yes, this chant softens the violence of Life and gives a tremendous fraternal sense of union with all the people involved including me who was only watching the film on TV but felt totally taken in their lives at that precise point…
Another journalistic account about the filmmaker Giancarlo Rosi, the Doctor Pietro Bartolo and of course Samuele (I have not mentioned yet because he was the obvious juvenile, human, living counterpart to the horror of what Lampedusa has been for so many years now.)
So here is the link to complete my quest about this amazing reality seen through Giancarlo Rosi's eyes and soul.
He was awarded the Golden bear in Berlin for Fuocoammarre from Meryl Streep's hands.
Fire at sea
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