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Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)

Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)

Drama
Release Date: 2019, November 21
Directors: Mimmo Calopresti
Countries: Italy
Production: Italian International Film
Cast: Sergio Rubini, Marco Leonardi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marcello Fonte, Romina Mondello, Francesco Colella, Francesco Grillo, Elisabetta Gregoraci, Carlo Marrapodi

Overview:

At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.