Description

A magical tale that puts a naive farm boy at the centre of a row between an exploitative owner of a tobacco farm in southern Italy, and her son who can no longer tolerate her inhuman treatment of the workers. The son, Tancredi (Luca Chikovani), with help from the saintly Lozzaro (Adriano Tardiolo), stages his own kidnapping in order to expose the workers' appalling conditions when the authorities step in. Set, at first, in the early decades of the 20th century, the film pulls off a time-shifting and life-affirming master stroke that leaves the innocent Lozzaro still youthful, but those around him decades older in this powerful critique of peasant worker abuse. (S)

Description

Broad Street,

Presteigne,

Powys,

Wales,

LD8 2AD.