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Fontamara (1980) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1980 · 139 mins · Italian
- Directed by
- Carlo Lizzani
- Starring
- Michele Placido, Franco Javarone, Imma Piro, Marina Confalone, Antonio Orlando, Ida Di Benedetto
Fontamara, a remote Marsica village, houses poor peasants called ‘cafoni’. Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira, but must first earn enough money to buy land, so he plans to go to the city. After fascist soldiers rape Maria Grazia, Berardo and Antonio go to Rome, are cheated by a lawyer, invited by an antifascist, and arrested for subversive papers.
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