Fernando Arrabal back to Matera for the forty years of “The Guernica tree”

In recent months, Fernando Arrabal is back to Matera. The occasion the anniversary of the movie "The tree of Guernica", set in a poor village of Castile, but actually filmed mostly between Sassi of Matera forty years ago. A co-production between Italy and France in 1975 which has among its protagonists mariangela melato, Ron Faber, Frank Ressel, Cosimo Cinieri. Arrabal wanted to once again emphasize its gratitude to Pier Paolo Pasolini, who has shot in Matera "The Gospel According to St. Matthew": "Pier Paolo Pasolini - said - prompted me to come to Matera to shoot the film." Considered one of the most important authors of the twentieth century, many-sided, director, poet, novelist, author of seven films and founder, with Topor and Jodorowsky, of the "Panic" Theatre , Arrabal has collaborated, among others, with André Breton, Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara. Fernando Arrabal, during the visit of the city, at the invitation of the Lucania Film Commission, has held two meetings at the Cinema City with the participation of high school students of the city. During the meetings wanted to emphasize his personal debt of gratitude to Matera: '' I thank you because Matera has seeded in me surrealism '' https://youtu.be/b6isiSRgNsc