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‘Vermiglio’ Trailer: A Small Italian Village Is Shaken By War In Maura Delpero’s Oscar Contender
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first official look at Vermiglio, the second feature from Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero.
Written and directed by Delpero, the pic, a portrait of a sprawling family, takes its title from a mountain village in the Italian Alps, which was home to the director’s family for generations.
The drama opens in the village in 1944. Largely cut off from the war across Europe, the arrival of a deserted soldier disrupts the life of the village teacher and his family as the eldest daughter falls for him, leading to an unexpected turn of fate.
View the trailer here
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Vermiglio
Directed and written by Maura Delpero.
In select US theaters December 25.
Janus Films and Sideshow Films
On first blush, the titular quaint mountainside Italian town in Vermiglio is untouched by the outside world. There is a second World War raging, but as one character says, German soldiers haven’t been around lately. There are two Italian servicemen, however, who are hiding out in a disused shed. One is a native son of the town; the other, a dashing yet quiet Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), hails from Sicily. Of the two deserters, it’s the latter who catches the adoring eye of Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the town’s learned but regressive and repressive teacher Cesare (Tommaso Ragno).