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Oct 16, 2009 · Purple Sea: Directed by Donatella Maiorca. With Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi. Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Donatella Maiorca
- 2009-10-16
Aug 24, 2021 · Purple Sea consists entirely of that footage. There’s a brutal simplicity to the film's structure. Bookended by black screens, it never cuts away from the disaster in its 66 minute runtime, planting you in a moment-to-moment struggle for survival. Even such a relatively short runtime feels unbearable to watch.
- Amel Alzakout
- Cathy Brennan
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Purple Sea (Italian: Viola di mare) is a 2009 Italian romance drama film directed by Donatella Maiorca. It is based on the non-fiction novel Minchia di re written by Giacomo Pilati. The film premiered at the 2009 Rome Film Festival . [1]
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Synopsis. Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their lifejackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely ...
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- 2021
- Self-Narrator , voice
- Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed
Purple Sea. "I see everything," she says, as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Buzzing voices. A peaceful moment if it weren't ...
- Documentary