Title from sell sheet. Gian Maria Volonte, Francois Simon. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: New introduction by Michael F. Moore; documentary from 1998 on Italian political cinema; excerpt from a 1974 documentary; excerpt from Marco Spanoli's short 2014 documentary "Unico"; trailer; booklet featuring an essay by Alexander Stille and a 1979 director's statement.
Summary:
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
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