Vermiglio

2024 119 min ★ 7.1 Drama

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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Cast

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

Details

Director

Maura Delpero

Status

Released

Original Language

IT

Production

Cinedora, Charades, RAI Cinema, Versus Production, VOO, BeTV, Orange, Proximus, RTBF, SG Image 2022

Reviews

B

Brent Marchant

January 5, 2025

★ 4/10

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...

C

CinemaSerf

January 22, 2025

★ 7/10

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...