Terraferma

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Still of Mimmo Cuticchio in TerrafermaStill of Beppe Fiorello and Filippo Pucillo in TerrafermaStill of Beppe Fiorello and Filippo Pucillo in TerrafermaStill of Filippo Pucillo and Martina Codecasa in TerrafermaStill of Filippo Pucillo in TerrafermaStill of Donatella Finocchiaro, Filippo Pucillo, Timnit T. and Rubel Tsegay Abraha in Terraferma

Plot

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

Release Year: 2011

Rating: 6.8/10 (419 voted)

Director:
Emanuele Crialese

Stars: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Beppe Fiorello

Storyline
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

Writers: Emanuele Crialese, Vittorio Moroni

Cast:

Filippo Pucillo

Filippo


Donatella Finocchiaro

Giulietta


Beppe Fiorello

Nino

(as Giuseppe Fiorello)


Mimmo Cuticchio

Ernesto


Martina Codecasa

Maura


Tiziana Lodato

Maria


Claudio Santamaria

Finanziere


Filippo Scarafia

Marco


Timnit T.

Sara


Pierpaolo Spollon

Stefano


Rubel Tsegay Abraha

Omar


Francesco Casisa

Release Date: 7 September 2011

Filming Locations: Linosa, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Gross: €1,172,323
(Italy)
(2 October 2011)



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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Italy's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.



User Review

Superior Italian Boat People piece.

Rating:


A remarkable film from a group of busy Italian film makers whose output
is largely unknown in the English speaking world, though the director's
RESPIRO did get some sub-titled screening. This one deserves the Oscar
it's been put up for.

Hardships among Sicilian fishermen (oh oh) who become involved with I
clandestini – illegal immigrants (Oh Oh!) but this one has a sharper
edge than the do gooder-films that usually make their way into art
theatres. The night time white water advancing on the small boat has
genuine menace and the again admirable Finocchiaro turning on the black
woman they saved, when pregnant and abandoned by her fellow escapees,
is all the more effective because it's unfamiliar. The film is not
without compassion but underlays it with a new realism.

Cast, crisp camera-work, sunny scenes of ocean front life, the
spectacle of half clothed tourist merry makers, whose relation with the
locals is as dodgy as that of the Africans, all add to the impact of an
involving and accomplished production.