''Banditi a Orgosolo'' (''Bandits of Orgosolo'') is a
1960
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Events
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Italian film
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drama directed by
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.Vittorina Pisano. De Seta won an Award for the film at the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
Orgosolo
Orgosolo ( sc, Orgòsolo) is a ''comune'' (municipality) located in the Province of Nuoro, in the autonomous region of Sardinia, at about north of Cagliari and about south of Nuoro.
The municipality is famous for its murals. These political p ...
unfairly charged with rustling and murder, is forced to take to the hills. In his flight into the inaccessible areas of
Barbagia
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, where there is neither water nor pastures, he loses every sheep in his flock.
One night, desperate because he is full of debts, and with impending trials up ahead, he goes into the sheepfold of another shepherd and, at gunpoint, steals every sheep.
Michele has become a
bandit
Banditry is a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence. A person who engages in banditry is known as a bandit and primarily commits crimes such as extortion, robbery, and murder, either as an ...
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Il mondo perduto
''Il mondo perduto'' ''(The lost world)'' is a DVD release of ten short documentaries films directed by
Vittorio De Seta between 1954 and 1959.
The series was restored by the Bologna Cinematheque in 2008.
Episodes
*1954. ''Vinni lu tempu de ...
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Détour De Seta
''Détour De Seta'' is a 2004 documentary film directed by Salvo Cuccia about Vittorio De Seta.
Synopsis
By tracing the places of Vittorio De Seta films and looking for people who had contact with him, as the Cozzo Disi sulfur miners, Ganzirri ...