'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects...
In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.
An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to...
In this 1972 film, Maria Carta, considered one of the most beautiful voices in the folk music scene and one of the most gifted artists in Sardinia, interacts with the actor Riccardo Cucciolla. Maria Carta recites verses and sings songs of the Sardinian tradition and conveys in her art the essential...
A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( “Hands have no tears to shed”)
