Three years in the making, Pizzicata is a debut feature by established documentary-maker Edoardo Winspeare, set in an area of Italy every bit as unique and different as Tornatore's Sicily. Every bit as personal, too, since the Salentino peninsular (on the heel of Italy, south of the Adriatic port of Bari), where the country-people speak the Pugliese dialect rather than pure Italian, is where Winspeare himself grew up.
The film takes place in the summer of 1943, and records the effect on the life of a struggling peasant family when a US airman is shot down on their land. Of Italian origin (indeed, his parents actually came from the Salentino area), Toni (Fabio Frascari) gradually begins to like the place - and to fall in love with the eldest daughter of the family (Chiara Torelli), whose promised marriage to a local landowner is their best hope of financial survival.
Pizzicata, which had its international premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival last month, is a co-production between Winspeare's own company and Munich-based broadcaster Suddeutscher Rundfunk, a link maintained since the director's film-school days in the Bavarian capital.
Prod co: Horres Film & TV, Classic, Suddeutscher Rundfunk
Prod/Dir/Guión (Scr): Edoardo Winspeare
Foto (Ph): Paolo Carnera
Art dir (Prod des): Sonia Peng
Mus: Jerome Harley
Mont (Ed): Carlotta Cristiani
Ints (Cast): Cosimo Cinieri, Chiara Torelli, Fabio Frascaro, Anna Dimitri, Ines D'Ambrosio
Ventas (Sales): Classic
Duración (Running time): 91 mins
Programación (Screening): 19.00, 27 Sept, Principal; 10.00, 28 Sept, Principal; 16.15, 28 Sept, Astoria 1; 19.30, 28 Sept, Principe 2
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