Direction: Vittorio De Seta

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Cast Vittorina Pisano · Michele Cossu · Peppeddu Cuccu

Plot In the harsh granite mountains of the center of the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, an old people live at the town of Orgòsolo. Between the rocks and...

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Plot Between April and August, swordfish deposit their eggs in the water that separates Sicily from Calabria. The fishermen await the fish in this stretch of water to kill them. The...

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Plot The Documentary shows the hard daily life of shepherds from Orgosolo. One of the ten documentaries about southern Italy that De Seta made in the 50s.

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Plot The first light of dawn. The sound of a boat and the screech of birds fill the wide expanse of sea. Black rocks emerge from the water, the “sciara” –...

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Plot Sicily. Granitola, 1955. At the first light of dawn, the fishermen set out in their boats for open water, timing the rhythm of their oars to murmured chants. They set...

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Plot Documentary about Barbagia, located in a mountainous area.

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Plot Calabria. Alessandria del Carretto: a group of old houses, 1,600 men and women, an archaic world, dulled, forgotten, that can only be reached with difficulty along an unpaved mountain road...

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Plot Fishing Boats sheds light on the fisheries between Sicily and Africa. De Seta shows how the fishermen put out to sea in all weathers to scrape a living. If a...

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Plot Sulfur mines are scattered throughout the vast peasant moors of central Sicily. Few structures bear witness from the outside of the dark battle and, sometimes, the invisible tragedy taking place...

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Plot The peasants move forward unevenly as they reap the wheat. Behind them, the endless, undulating stretch of the Sicilian estate. The men load the sheafs of wheat onto the mules...

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Cast Jacques Perrin · Lea Padovani · Gianni Garko · Ilaria Occhini

Plot Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin...

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Plot The Easter celebrations that take place in San Fratello, Delia and Aidone create a picture of the manifestations of genuine and spontaneous religious feeling and of the spiritual folklore in...

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Cast Djibril Kébé

Plot A desert village perched on a mountain of Aspromonte. A young farmer teaches the craft to a laborer from Senegal. The next day the farmer will have to emigrate to...

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Cast Bruno Cirino · Massimo Bonini · Luciano Del Croce · Marisa Fabbri

Direction Claudio Camarca · Paola Catella · Matteo Cerami · Anne Riitta Ciccone

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Maya Sansa · Marco Giallini · Roberto Herlitzka

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Cast Djibril Kébé · Thierno Ndiaye Doss · Stefano Saccotelli

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Plot Documentary about Calabria as land of encounters and collisions between old and new.

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Cast Joanna Shimkus · Michel Piccoli · Jacques Perrin · Paul Barge