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Roberto Minervini on Making His Naturalistic U.S. Civil War Drama ‘The Damned’ While the ‘Rust’ Shooting Tragedy Broke – Trailer
Roberto Minervini discusses making his naturalistic U.S. Civil War Drama ‘The Damned’ while the 'Rust' shooting tragedy broke.
Italian-born and Texas-based director Roberto Minervini is known for making hard-hitting documentaries that dissect the backwaters of American society, such as his so-called Texas trilogy comprising “The Passage,” “Low Tide” and “Stop the Pounding Heart.” “The Damned,” which premieres on Thursday in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and is Minervini’s first fiction feature, is set during the American Civil War in the winter of 1862. Below, Minervini speaks to Variety about his the transition from making docs to fiction with a very realistic war movie and how he worked with armorers to ensure there was no risk of repeating the tragedy that occurred on the “ Rust ” set while “The Damned” was filming.
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