Word: galvano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers and march out to grasp liberation rather than waiting for it timorously...
...powerful but understand scenes that capture perfectly the heightened sense of ordinary life that the characters are leading. The entire group as they huddle around a tree listening for their village to blow up, think thoughts that range from the sublime ("And so our rosy San Martino fades away"--Galvano) to the ridiculous ("Oh God, let the houses blow up, I've never had so much fun" Cecilia), but the directors give them all equal weight. A woman, having broken off to join a group of Sicilan-American soldiers she believes are in the area, is killed by the enemy...
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