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Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)
Directed by Mimmo Calopresti
Drama · 1h 27m
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
Cast
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Francesco Colella
Marcello Fonte
Marco Leonardi
Sergio Rubini
Elisabetta Gregoraci
Romina Mondello
Francesco Grillo
Fabrizio Gifuni
Fulvio Lucisano
Crew
- Director
- Mimmo Calopresti
- Screenplay
- Monica Zapelli, Mimmo Calopresti
- Writer
- Mimmo Calopresti, Monica Zapelli
- Novel
- Pietro Criaco
- Director of Photography
- Stefano Falivene
- Original Music Composer
- Nicola Piovani
- Editor
- Valerio Quintarelli, Esmeralda Calabria, Andrea Bonanni
- Producer
- Federica Lucisano, Fulvio Lucisano
Details
- Original title
- Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi
- Release date
- 2019-11-21
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Italian International Film, Regione Calabria, RAI Cinema, Regione Lazio
- Budget
- $800,000
- Box office
- $274,858