In 1943, an Italian American fighter pilot is hidden for his own safety in an olive farm in Salento, Italy. He begins to fall in love with the farmer's daughter and starts to understand the culture of his new home through its traditional dance, the pizzicata.
Cinematography
Salento's golden hour looks illegally beautiful.
Score
Traditional pizzica music that makes you want to learn.
Acting
Cosimo Cinieri's gruff farmer says everything with silence.
Director
Edoardo Winspeare
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The pizzica was nearly extinct before this film helped revive it as living tradition; Winspeare cast actual Salentino locals, not actors.
Tony's arc mirrors real Italian-American WWII soldiers who discovered their 'homeland' was foreign to them—some never returned to the US.
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