directed by Alessandro Blasetti. Italy, 1934 (80 min). By special arrangement with Ripley's Film

The Italian cinema's first maestro adopts a highly original approach to Garibaldi's epic story, setting aside the booming rhetoric of the Fascist era for a viewpoint set far lower down the social scale, among the Sicilian peasants who fought with Garibaldi's men.  This mastepiece of Italian film-making heralds Neo-Realism with its stringent style inspired by Soviet movies, its dry, bare-bones yet effective approach, its use of amateur actors speaking in dialect, and its extraordinary discovery of the landscape in bright, sunlit images that echo the paintings of Giovanni Fattori.

Informazioni

Admission free

Cinema

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a, Rome