Vermiglio at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, from 30 March - 2 April. Italy, 1944. A remote mountain village is shaken by the arrival of a deserted soldier, and his burgeoning romance with a villager makes matters much worse.
1944. Towards the end of WWII in Vermiglio - a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps - the arrival of Pietro, a deserted soldier, disrupts the dynamics of a local family, changing them forever.
Pietro, a Sicilian, keeps mostly to himself. However, he establishes a mild flirtation with Lucia, the eldest daughter of Cesare, the much-respected village schoolteacher. Soon, Pietro and Lucia are falling in love. But their pairing sets in motion a series of events that pushes the family towards tragedy and shakes the entire village.
Told in four chapters, each set in a different season, Maura Delpero’s film is powerful and stunning. Beautifully photographed and filled with emotion, it’s a story of women, war and family.
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