Salvatore - This is Life
2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Gian Paolo Cugno’s first feature takes place in Pachino, the Sicilian town where he was born. “Salvatore” is about the friendship that springs up between a boy who's lost his parents and his new elementary school teacher from northern Italy, played by accomplished actor Enrico Lo Verso. As their relationship develops, the teacher is surprised at how stoically Salvatore bears his hard life, while the boy sees in him his missing father. Cugno’s Sicily is described with incisive realism and modernity as a land still tied to its ancient customs, even as it changes under the onslaught of new technology such as Internet.
Direction Gian Paolo Cugno
Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Alessandro Mallia · Galatea Ranzi · Giancarlo Giannini · Gabriele Lavia · Lucia Sardo
Soundtrack Paolo Vivaldi
Screenplay Gian Paolo Cugno · Paolo Di Reda
Cinematography Gino Sgreva
Original title Salvatore
5.6
134 votes (FilmAffinity)
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