Sicily! (1999)
Sicilia!
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
- Date of release
- 1999-05-19
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Casting
- Gianni Buscarino — Il figlio
- Vittorio Vigneri — L'arrotino
- Angela Nugara — La madre
- Carmelo Maddio — Il venditore di arance
- Angela Durantini — Moglie del venditore di arance
- Simone Nucatola — Poliziotto
- Ignazio Trombello — Poliziotto
- Giovanni Interlandi — Il Gran Lombardo
- Giuseppe Bonta — Il catanese
- Mario Baschieri — Il vecchino
Interesting facts
- Based on: Conversations in Sicily
- Filmed in: Syracuse
Sicilia! is a 1999 Italian black-and-white film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Sicilia! follows a man returning to visit his native Sicily, after living in New York City for many years. The film is an adaptation of Elio Vittorini's anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, which was first published in 1941.
Production
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa's documentary on Straub and Huillet, Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (alternately translated into English as Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? or Where Lies Your Hidden Smile?), was filmed while they were editing Sicilia!.
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