The Return of the Prodigal Son

The Return of the Prodigal Son

60% Match20030h 29m

Drama

Overview

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.

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Look Both Ways
Just Like Home
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The Silent Twins
Little Soldier
With Your Permission
Little Forest
Yevdokiya
Oyster Farmer
The Cake Eaters
Starving in Suburbia
Summertime
Concerto in Darb Saada
The Guitar
The Master of Kõrboja
From Evening Till Morning
Second Encounters
Luck by Chance