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The Man Who Will Come

A powerful and engrossing drama based on the World War II tragedy known as the Marzabotto Massacre. This film confirms director and co-writer Giorgio Diritti as a major player in contemporary Italian cinema. Winter, 1943. Martina is a wide-eyed 8-year-old who hasn't spoken since her baby brother died in her arms. Now her mother Lena (Maya Sansa) is pregnant again, and Martina looks forward to the new arrival. But 1943-44 is a difficult period. Lena and her husband, Armando (Claudio Casadio), along with the other peasants, struggle to feed themselves and the families who've fled the city and are lodging in their spare rooms, whilst debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. At the same time Armando's sister (Alba Rohrwacher) has spent time in the city herself, adopting ways that grate on her mother. Early in his career Diritti worked with Ermanno Olmi, and he tips his cap to his mentor by evocatively capturing village life in the countryside around Bologna with lyrical simplicity, local dialect, and austerely beautiful images

Year: 2009
Genre: Drama, War and Anti-War Films, Italian Cinema
Country: Italy
Director: Georgio Diritti
Starring: Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher, Claudio Casadio
Duration: 115 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains violence.
Subtitles: Yes
7.5/10
Location in store: Foreign (Italy)

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