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.
Danièle Huillet
Director, Writer
Jean-Marie Straub
Director, Writer
Martina Gionfriddo
Andrea Balducci
Gabriella Taddei
Vittorio Vigneri
Aldo Fruttuosi
Lucky Them60%
The Trials of Cate McCall63%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film70%
The Safety of Objects65%
Strange Weather58%
Incompresa62%
Hounddog64%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
Return64%
Cinque secondi67%
Holy Lands61%
TalhotBlond63%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
Eleanor the Great68%
The Poker House62%
Hellion58%
The Girl in the Book58%
Cosa sarà72%
Starving in Suburbia65%
La Riffa68%
