In the last days of the Second World War, a deserting soldier disrupts a tranquil and isolated mountain community. For one family, his arrival brings excitement and romance, but tragedy lies in wait.
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Tommaso Ragno
Cesare
Giuseppe De Domenico
Pietro
Roberta Rovelli
Adele
Martina Scrinzi
Lucia
Orietta Notari
Zia Cesira
Carlotta Gamba
Virginia
Santiago Fondevila
Attilio
Sara Serraiocco
Anna Pennisi
Rachele Potrich
Ada
Anna Thaler
Flavia
Director
Maura Delpero
Status
Released
Original Language
IT
Production
Cinedora, Charades, RAI Cinema, Versus Production, VOO, BeTV, Orange, Proximus, RTBF, SG Image 2022
Brent Marchant
January 5, 2025
Just as too many cooks can ruin the stew, too many story threads can ruin a movie, and that’s very much the case with writer-director Maura Delpero’s fourth feature film. This Golden Globe nominee for Best International Film follows the lives of a family in a village in the Italian Alps in 1944. The family patriarch and town schoolteacher, Cesare (Tommaso Regno), along with his wife and army of ei...
CinemaSerf
January 22, 2025
With the war now heading firmly in the favour of the allies, Italian soldiers are deserting in droves and one of them, Sicilian "Pietro" (Giuseppe De Domenico) arrives, wounded, in the eponymous Italian village where they know what he has done. Opinion is divided on what to do next, given many have lost their sons in the war or are still ignorant of their whereabouts, but he has the support of the...
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