D.i Matteo Fresi, with Andrea Arcangeli, Marco Bullitta, Giovanni Carroni, Syama Rayner, Stefano Mereu, Nicola Pannelli
The Vasa family in Fresi’s film.
The legend told in the 1884 novel by the Sassari Enrico Costa has its anti-hero in a young man who, deaf and dumb from birth, in the territory of Aggius is considered a creature of the devil. His role, and his infallible aim (yes, really diabolical), in the feud between the Mamia and Vasa families which, 10 years before the expedition of the Thousand and the unification of Italy, cost at least 70 lives, in the presence of the impotent guards of the king and the Church, are at the center of Matteo Fresi’s debut film, presented in competition at the Torino Film Festival.
A fratricidal tragedy
Dense woods, ravines, stony ground, paths traveled by men on horseback are the places where the tragedy of a compulsive and fratricidal disamistadea world governed by feudal rules that Fresi tells as if it were a western, where the marginalization of the protagonist it is reflected in that of the island and its lost people.
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