Martina Gionfriddo
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Humiliated
2003-03-24
Humiliated
Overview: Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-03-24
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Workers, Peasants
2001-09-30
Workers, Peasants
Overview: A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-09-30
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The Return of the Prodigal Son
2003-04-23
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Overview: In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-23
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