''The Cardboard Village'' ( it, Il villaggio di cartone) is a 2011 Italian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Ermanno Olmi.
Plot
A now uninhabitable church is decommissioned in the presence of the old pastor. The environment is stripped of all sacred furnishings, and not even the large crucifix will be saved. From this situation begins a new life for the building, which, now stripped of all liturgical and "institutional" aspects, is transformed into the place of the living concretization of the old priest's faith. A place of desolation is thus transformed into a space of brotherhood and welcome for a group of non-EU Africans without residence permits, the embodiment of the excluded and marginalized in our society.
Cast
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Michael Lonsdale as Il Vecchio Prete
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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.
Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series ' ...
as Il Sacrestano
* Massimo De Francovich as Il Medico
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Alessandro Haber as Il Graduato
* Ibrahima Faye El Hadji as Il Soccorritore
* Irma Pino Viney as Magdha
* Fatima Alì as Fatima
* Samuels Leon Delroy as Il Bardo
* Fernando Chronda as Il Cherubino
* Souleymane Sow as L'Avverso
* Linda Keny as Madre
See also
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Films about immigration to Italy
References
External links
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2011 films
2011 drama films
2010s Italian-language films
Italian drama films
Films directed by Ermanno Olmi
Films about immigration
2010s Italian films
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