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    VERMIGLIO

    VERMIGLIO 
    Italy, France, Belgium

    SYNOPSIS

    1944. In Vermiglio, a mountain village where the war isdistant but omnipresent horizon, the arrival of Pietro, a soldier escaping the war, disrupts the dynamics of the local schoolmaster’s large family, changing them forever. The love between Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter, leads to their marriage and an unexpected destiny.

    CREDITS

    Written & directed by: Maura Delpero 
    Produced by: Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Maura Delpero, Carole Baraton, Pauline Boucheny Pinon, Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Tatjana Kozar 
    Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman 
    Editing: Luca Mattei 
    Production Design: Jesús Lorenzo Pirra, Vito Zito, Marina Pozanco 
    Costume Design: Andrea Cavalletto 
    Make-Up & Hair: Fréderique Foglia, Tiziana Argiolas 
    Original Score: Matteo Franceschini 
    Sound: Dana Farzanehpour, Hervé Guyader, Emmanuel De Boissieu 
    Visual Effects: Benjamin Ageorges 
    Casting: Stefania Rodà, Maurilio Mangano 
    Cast: Martina Scrinzi (Lucia), Tommaso Ragno (Cesare), Giuseppe De Domenico (Pietro), Roberta Rovelli (Adele), Rachele Potrich (Ada), Anna Thaler (Flavia), Carlotta Gamba (Virginia), Orietta Notari (Zia Cesira)

    STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR

    My father left us one summer afternoon. Before closing them forever, he looked at us with the big, amazed eyes ofchild. I had already heard that when you get older you becomelittle child again, butdidn’t know that those two ages could merge into a single face. In the months that followed, he came to visit me in a dream. He had returned to his childhood home, in Vermiglio. He was six years old and hadtoothless smile and the legs ofmountain goat and was carrying this film under his arm: four seasons in the life of his large family. A story of children and adults, amongst deaths and births, disappointments and rebirths, of their holding each other tight in the turns of life, and out ofcommunity growing into individuals. Of the smell of wood and warm milk on freezing mornings. With the distant and ever-present war, experienced by those who remained outside the great machine: the mothers who watched the world fromkitchen, with newborns dying because of blankets that were too short, the women who feared they were already widows, the farmers who waited for children who never returned, the teachers and priests who replaced the fathers. A story of war without bombs, or great battles. In the uncompromising logic of the mountain that every day reminds man how small he is. 
    Vermiglio is a landscape of the soul, a “family saying” that lives inside me, on the threshold of the unconscious, an act of love for my father, his family and their small village. Travelling through a personal time, it wants to pay homage to a collective memory.

    • Feature Film Selection 2024