Benigni: "Afghanistan makes my heart a refugee"

"The images we see from Afghanistan, of people huddled in the mud and then of mothers throwing children over the barbed wire, are like seeing one's heart thrown, our heart is a refugee in this world. I too have the desire. to throw my heart over the barbed wire, because those images we see are about me. I am them, I am that child, they are all the faces of Christ ". Roberto Benigni said this last night in Viareggio (Lucca) - as Ansa writes - where he received the special City of Viareggio prize from the president of the 92nd Viareggio-Repaci Literary Prize, Paolo Mieli. Benigni echoed the words of the winner of the narrative section Edith Bruck according to which "we live in a world of refugees": "He's right and my heart is a refugee to see pictures of mothers throwing babies over barbed wire. Those are all the faces of Christ, we can't help but help those people. There is nothing else to do ". In conversation with Mieli, the Oscar winner said - always reports Ansa - that he had told" the Shoah with irony because that was fiction mediated by art, art always changes the subject that tells. While today the images that arrive from Afghanistan are now tragic reality, it is a burning flame, which cannot yet be treated with irony. "" What we see in the reports from Kabul - he explains - is something unsurpassable, which cannot be achieved now. to be touched by irony, because what happens is too present and needs time ".The great director and actor also talked about his relationship with poetry: "I love poetry, I have a drawer full of poems. They may be nonsense but, as they say? I prefer the nonsense of writing poems rather than not writing them. poems all the time, I write a lot of them and I must say that I only read them to myself. Poems are like prayers. I pray a lot and write a lot ".  

Roberto Benigni (Ansa archive photo)

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August 29, 2021 "The images we see from Afghanistan, of people huddled in the mud and then of mothers throwing children over barbed wire, are like seeing one's heart thrown, our heart is a refugee in this world. Me too I have the desire to throw my heart over the barbed wire, because those images we see are about me. I am them, I am that child, they are all the faces of Christ ". Roberto Benigni said this last night in Viareggio (Lucca) - as Ansa writes - where he received the special City of Viareggio prize from the president of the 92nd Viareggio-Repaci Literary Prize, Paolo Mieli.

Benigni echoed the words of the winner of the fiction section Edith Bruck according to which "we live in a world of refugees": "He is right and my heart is refugee to see the images of mothers throwing children over the barbed wire. all the faces of Christ, we can only help those people. There is nothing else to do. "

Speaking with Mieli, the Oscar winner said - Ansa always reports - that he had told "the Shoah with irony because that was fiction mediated by art, art always changes the subject it tells. While today the images that arrive from Afghanistan they are now tragic reality, it is a burning flame, which cannot yet be treated with irony ".

"What we see in the reports from Kabul - he explains - is something unsurpassable, which cannot now be touched by irony, because what is happening is too present and needs time".

The great director and actor also talked about his relationship with poetry: "I love poetry, I have a drawer full of poems. They may be nonsense but, as they say? I prefer the nonsense of writing poems rather than not writing them. poems all the time, I write a lot of them and I must say that I only read them to myself. Poems are like prayers. I pray a lot and write a lot ".

Benigni: "Afghanistan makes my heart a refugee"

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