The emigration , this phenomenon dell’italica history, which, especially in the second half of 1800, has ” brought” a huge number of Lucania and Calabria , in particular, to land in every corner of the world, ” in search of fortune ,” is dotted and built on thousands and thousands of human affairs, all worthy of being reported and, although to some extent , remember to be handed down to younger generations and those to come that , of that epic , are not or may not have a vision adherent to reality and , in any case , need to have at least a chronicle the widest and punctual , if and how much , as possible, to preserve “those days of memory.”
The “reconstruction” of the pages of this human adventure ” written ” by many fellow countrymen , of which we are interested in long since ( we published some time ago , for example and among others, the epic story of “a group of emigrants trecchinesi ” ) , although now to make text … are the descendants , it should be made , attempted , at least sketched , maybe starting from only one example, as in this case , because sometimes includes individual ” stories” or tragically beautiful and positive gripping .
Prerequisite : the early 1800s and for several decades the ” goals of emigration” from Aieta , St. Nicholas , Scalea , S. Domenica , Riverside , Trecchina , etc. . , Which used ” oars or shoes ,” were the countries of the Mediterranean, Spain, France , Corsica , the nations of north Africa, and so on.
From 1860 to about 1960, from Aieta , Praja , Tortora , Scalea , San Nicola Arcella , Lauria, Maratea, etc. . , The first , with ” sailboats ” that plied the island Dino or S. Janni in Naples , “brave” who wanted to … very strongly wanted to ” cross ” the Atlantic reached , after a night of navigation along the northern Tyrrhenian Sea , the port of Naples where he ” embarked ” on ” fumes ” from which , after about a month en route to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela , as well as to Central America , ” landed ” almost like the “promised land” that , in many cases , however, soon showed itself for what it was and that is a difficult continent , where the ” money were not on the street … ” and where the inclusion in the social fabric of the host country was not always easy ( the main difficulty was the reading and writing in local languages ) .
It was necessary , in order to plan to arrive in those distant shores , and few now remember him , a specific ” call to action ” , a kind of guarantee from a relative who was already included in the ” new country ” and that he could and was to ensure job and welcome to the new aspirants to emigrate.
More difficult was the arrival , in that same period of time , of our countrymen both in North America and Australia , for the restrictions on the number of ” allowed ” those nations that were operating , although the examples , the enclave of Walnut, of those who managed to leave, for those distant destinations , there are (there are “cases” even for South Africa , New Zealand , etc. . ) .
Hundreds of these ” first immigrants ” , once they arrive in the new continent , is ” lost ” , then , in the ” pampas ” Argentine or Uruguayan estates or along the golden beaches of Brazil , Venezuela, Chile , etc. . , And gave no more ” news “to the families of origin or of belonging, especially to their wives and children, who were” left ” in anxious and hopeful waiting along the lower boot , while others, a few, ” they found the … Merica ” , a steady job and an insertion safe , and ” recalled ” after a certain period of time, the loved ones with whom they met again in Rio , S. Paulo , Montevideo , Buenos Aires, etc. . and gave so ” off ” … and other new events … and several other adventures!
Splendid example for all : the current Pope, who sits on the throne of St. Peter, Pope Francis is the son of immigrants from Piedmont who landed in Argentina at the beginning of the twentieth century !
The commissioning of the railway Naples – Reggio Calabria , in the last two decades of the 1800s, ” favored ” the move to the ports of embarkation , especially in Campania , who recorded for many long years , a slowdown was recorded only during of the first and second great war, a “river” of people , wanting a better horizon , tried the card of emigration.
We were also the spectators , stunned and moved, albeit very young , in the second half of the 50s the other … century, in some special occasions, both the railway station of Praja – Ajeta – Tortora on the dock of the port of Naples, from which is ” detached ” such as Julius Caesar or Augustus , of certain ” significant departures ” from ” waving handkerchiefs “, ” fainting “, ” heart-rending cries “, ” very young children to the fathers shown facing to the side of the ship … “while a band (just a fanfare ) chanted ” depart the ships … to very distant lands … “, because the Neapolitan song had” melodically ” already consecrated and made ” cantabile ” by all, this phenomenon , temporally long and that was certainly painful and mass.
There are memories ” holographic ” , they just recalled , but photographs, or better than the frames realistic and true , albeit difficult to convey and clarify, after so long.
Magma in the history of emigration Calabria- Lucania in the early decades of the twentieth century , after this modest ” introductory framework ,” refer , first, to the memory of two young brothers praiesi , one of twenty and the other of nineteen at the time , Anthony and Angelo Sarubbo , that the sons of a railroad in 1930 … decided to go across the Atlantic and landed in Montevideo, Uruguay , where , led to the altar and then the two ” daughters of Lauria ” , they also emigrated very young , Sunday Sarubbi and Elis D’Angelo (1) , having spent a long and active life , now ” resting ” and where, thanks to the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren , the ” saga of the dynasty ,” he continues.
It ‘just a nephew of Angelo Sarubbo that ” will outline ” , in broad terms, with this writing, limited and partial , the figure on the professional side , the peculiarity of his personal story , especially work that has ” bound ” and that surely even indirectly ” honors ” to the two regions of “recall” and , also, and to some extent, of “roots” , Basilicata and Calabria , especially for the goals and targets ” cut ” , as well as for programs already in progress, or future , by this ” young Italian- Uruguayan Brasilian ” either completed or underway .
Mauro Baptista Vedia , in fact , the son of Graciela Sarubbo , with father Uruguayan born in Montevideo fifty years ago, shares her daily life with Michelle Boesche , actress screening ( 2), and after living in Spain, was a naturalized ” brasileiro “to a parenthesis has lived in Rio de Janeiro , where he assumed responsibility for the ” Radio Sarandi de Uruguay y de la Radio de Méjico 1000 ” and collaborated with television,” CBS Univision y / Telenoticias , ” as well as CNN, and then to St. Paul , where he moved in 1995 and where he served in the first instance , even ” periodista ,” journalist and correspondent for Agence France Press and ” periodista cultural” newspaper “El Pais ” in Montevideo ( 3).
Meanwhile , having achieved simultaneously , the local university , a doctorate in ” Visual Arts ” , with a thesis on challenging Quentin Tarantino, which was published , Publisher Papirus , and was ” indicated ” the Prize ” Jabuti ” , the most prestigious category , ” aside ” , though with regret , journalism and devoted himself completely to the ” Site by Film ” at the cinema, developing a first , challenging short film, ” Alex ,” a fiction, that ” participated ” , with more than satisfactory results at various events and notes , BBC Short Film , London Latin American Film Festival, etc. . , in various ” locations ” of South America, Cuba , Uruguay, Brazil, etc. .
Meanwhile … maturing time for something that could take on the international stage of cinema: in 2007 it was chosen and directed ” La fiesta de Abigaiu ” ( Abigayl ‘s party ) , Mike Leigh , which was an outcome of the public and critics exciting ( more 50,000 spectators in a season and with an indication of the Shell Award , having been chosen as ” best Comedy ” by the magazine ” Contigo ” , while the award of ” best Artist ” went to actress starring Esther Laccava … maybe even with her Italian roots and southern ) and that gave him the opportunity to ” enter” the most prestigious theater circuit in South America, under the direction of four works that the ” fame and notoriety assured !”
Next to the theater , at the same time, he also directed a TV series and among other things , selected for the award FIPA in Biarritz, and has completed a feature film , always a fiction , titled ” Jardim Europa ,” which was selected in 2013 for the Festival of Latin American Cinema in St. Paul and was premiered at CINESESC .
Among the works ” directed and produced ” by Mauro Baptista Vedia , in recent years, remember Extase , Ligaçoes Perigosas , with Maria Fernanda Candido and Marat Descartes ( Theatre FAAP ) , Os Penetras , the telefilm ” A Performance ” for the TV Cultura, already selected for the Latin-American festival of St. Paul, and , for children , the short gangue , etc. .
Currently , Mauro Baptista Vedia , is therefore at the same time theater director , film director and professor of drama , having also completed a post- doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris in specific 2012: brilliantly , as well, and meanwhile , organized “The Book of Cinema Mundial Contemporary ” and took over the direction of the ” Associacion Paulista de Filmmakers ” of St. Paul.
Missing, but it is in their most secret hopes, like all immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants , at this point in his life, rewarding work and cultural … just a call dall’italico soil that is in the dreams of this ” all-round artist of the visual arts ” , which is a credit to his native country and host and, consequently , also in our country , the land of his grandparents, and that if it is used in some” project “our , maybe even for a one season , would sanction restituted to the ideal bridge , unbroken between a part of South America and our south, above all, for one or for that important slice of ” second-and third -generation migrants ” who , despite everything, continue to dream … Italy !
Despite the difficulties of the present time , even for the cinema and the theater of our own , we do not despair and do indeed vote in which some influential character of the area , perhaps with roots Lucan (Rocco Papaleo ?) Or Calabrian far as the eye and memories of this versatile … ” operator -author – artist … ours ” and encourage it … the temporary return to the Fatherland, for the creation of something beautiful : it would be a remarkable step forward in terms of international cultural relations – and a victory , let this is also expressed deep feeling, of hope and of common sense. Meanwhile … Mauro and wishes “to maiora always ” !
Giovanni Celico
1 -Sunday , aka ” Menchina ” or ” Minchina ” as he was familiarly called , mother’s maiden name Lanziani , ” resting ” , from the late 70s of the last century , right in the cemetery of Lauria ( back in Italy for a short visit family unfortunately died there ), while Elis, mother’s maiden name as well Lanziani , novantacinquenne still in great shape , the daughter of Nicholas, goldsmith and watchmaker lauriota , transmigrated in Uruguay between 1800 and 1900 , he still lives in Montevideo ;
2 -E with two cats , and Puca Neguinha ;
3 – In 1998 , Mauro Baptista Vedia , passionate student of the ” realist cinema ” of the ’80s and ’90s , he also lived in Los Angeles for two months and there he attended the ” UCLA ” , writing a lot about that experience definitely unique.