Il Rosa Nudo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGiovanni Coda
Written byGiovanni Coda
Produced byReindeerCat Solutions
Starring
  • Gianni Dettori
  • Italo Medda
  • Sergio Anrò
  • Gianni Loi
  • Mattia Casanova
  • Francesco Ottonello
  • Mauro Ferrari
  • Luca Catalano
  • Lorena Piccapietra
  • Assunta Pittaluga
  • Carlo Porru
  • Cricot Teatro
  • Cesare Saliu: narrator
  • Massimo Aresu: narrator
CinematographyAntonio Cauterucci
Micaela Cauterucci
Edited byAndrea Lotta
Music byIrma Toudjian
Les Sticks Fluo
Quartetto Alborada
Distributed byReindeerCat Solutions
Release date
  • April 20, 2013 (2013-04-20) (Italy)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian, English subtitles

Il Rosa Nudo (The Naked Rose) is a 2013 Italian film written and directed by Giovanni Coda. The film was shot in Quartu Sant'Elena and Siliqua, in Sardinia, Italy. The Italian premiere took place during the 2013 edition of the Torino GLBT Film Festival - Da Sodoma a Hollywood.

It was selected as a special event, "for its high artistic, historical and moral value", inside the 7th edition of the Queer Lion Award of the 70th Venice Film Festival 2013.[1]

Plot

Il Rosa Nudo (Naked Rose) is a film inspired by the life of Pierre Seel. The film focuses on an episode which will mark forever the existence of Seel, who was imprisoned by the Nazis at the age of seventeen: deported to the Schirmeck concentration camp, he witnessed the atrocious death of his partner. After the war he didn't speak to anyone about the reason for his imprisonment, and eventually he married and had three children.

In 1982, outraged by the violent attacks against gays by the Bishop of Strasbourg, he decided to write his autobiography and to denounce the atrocities he suffered.

Coda's film recalls the testimony of other victims of Nazi persecution of homosexuals and describes the pseudo-scientific experiments to which many of them were subjected by the SS physician Carl Vaernet.[2]

Awards and Official Selections

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Evento Speciale Il Rosa Nudo di Giovanni Coda alla 70ma Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine IMG Press (retrieved 26-08-2013).
  2. ^ Carl Vaernet made studies of a preparation containing hormones. His aim was to "cure homosexuality". About 80% of the prisoners forced to take part in the experiment with injections of massive doses of testosterone died.

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