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.

Tommaso Ragno
as Cesare

Giuseppe De Domenico
as Pietro

Roberta Rovelli
as Adele

Martina Scrinzi
as Lucia

Orietta Notari
as Zia Cesira

Carlotta Gamba
as Virginia

Santiago Fondevila
as Attilio

Sara Serraiocco
as Anna Pennisi

Rachele Potrich
as Ada

Anna Thaler
as Flavia
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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...
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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 ...