Wellman / Bunarman
L'uomo del pozzo
Der Brunnenmann
HRT,
Croatian television
2003, Documentary / Documentario
color, 29'52'', DIGITAL BETA
English subtitles
Sous-titres anglais
Director/Regia BRANKO ISTVANCIC
Script/Sceneggiatura DAVOR SISMANOVIC
Camera/Fotografia TVRTKO MRSIC
Editor/Montaggio ZDRAVKO BORKO
Music/Musica KRESIMIR BLAZEVIC
Sound/Suono DAMIR TEPES
Head of Documentaries MIRO BRANKOVIC
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Synopsis:
The main character of the documentary
film "Wellman", Antun Gabajcek - Nuno, is one of the last practitioners
of an old and dying profession. When requested, he digs water wells,
but without the use of machinery. He exclusively uses tools that
require hard physical labour. He is not working in this manner because
he is capricious or stubbornly insists on tradition. He simply does
it because there is no other way to do the job properly. In this
film, the well man is fortifies the sides of a well with bricks
to help the water flow and enhance its quality. Major physical effort
is required to achieve that, as well as sophisticated methodology,
an original strategy and many hand-made tools. This is precisely
why Gabajcek is a good character for a documentary. This documentary search for the answers to the question how can such a troublesome
way to earn a living produce such a unique and wonderful person.
Synopsis (Italiano)
Antun Gabajcek - Nuno é uno degli ultimi professionisti di un'attivitá
ormai in declino. Quando é necessario, scava pozzi senza l'uso di
macchine. Non lavora cosi per capriccio o perché legato alla tradizione,
ma perché non c'é altro modo di fare il lavoro in maniera appropriata...
Synopsis (French)
Antun Gabajcek - Nuno - est un puisatier comme il n'en existe plus
guére en Croatie, ni meme ailleurs. C'est avec une baguette qu'il
détermine l'emplacement du puits, avec une simple pelle qu'il le
creuse, avec un seau qu'il le vide et avec l'amour du travail bien
fait qu'il le tapisse de briques. Du creusement d'un puits comme
un des Beaux Arts, ce film célebre le labeur humain et la passion
d'un homme qui aime ce qu'il fait.
Synopsis
(Germany)
Man nehme eine Wünschelrute, finde die geeignete Stelle und beginne
zu graben. Kreisrund, einen Meter im Durchmesser. Man grabe tief
und immer tiefer. Vier, sechs, acht, zehn Meter, bis das Grundwasser
in den hohlen Zylinder dringt und man Wasser in einem Brunnen hat.
Awards
/ Premi
Best Director Croatian Short Film Festival Zagreb 2003
Best Documentary in Croatia 2003 Oktavijan Award of Croatian
Film Critic's Guild
Best Director DaKINO Buchurest Romania 2003
Special Award for documentary / Premio Speciale
per il Documentario Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio Siena Italy 2003
Special Mention for using the direct, significant documentary
style / Menzione d'onore a per l'uso dello stile documentaristico
diretto ed essenziale Corto Imola Film Festival Italy 2003
Festivals:
Croatian Film Festival 2003
CIRCOM 2003
International Grand
Prix for Documentaries - URTI 2003
Sarajevo Film Festival 2003
International Film Festival
Kalamata - Greece 2003
Festival
Internazionale del Cortometraggio Siena - Italy 2003
DaKINO International Film Festival
- Romania 2003
cortoimolafestival -
International Short Film Festival 2003
Bilan du Film Ethnographique,
Paris, France 2004
Zanzibar
Internationa Film Festival 2004
SILVERDOCS 2004
International
Short Film Festival Hamburg 2004
Parnu
Intl. Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival 2004
Corto
per Scelta Italy 2004
Liburnia
Film Festival 2004
Dokufest
documentary and short film festival Prizren 2004
Festival dokument
ART Germany 2004
The Mediterranenan Festival of
Documentary Films 2004
ZINEBI Bilbao Film Festival 2004
PREMIO LIBERO BIZZARRI 2004
International
Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade 2004
Belgrade
Documentary and Short Film Festival 2005
ECOCINEMA
FESTIVAL ATHENS 2005
IMAGINARIA
International Short Film Festival, Italy 2005
Libertas Dubrovnik
Film Festival 2005
Agrofilm
2005
Margaret Mead Film
and Video Festival 2005
Tehran
Short Film Festival 2005
DokMa
2005
Worldfilm
2006
Mediterranean Environmental Award 2006
Matsalu International Nature Film Festival Estonia 2007
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