ICI London is delighted to announce that Vermiglio, the film by Maura Delpero which won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and is Italy’s international Oscars contender, has also picked up a Golden Globe Nomination.
In cinemas January 17
1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival
DIRECTOR Maura Delpero
WRITER Maura Delpero
CAST Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe de Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION Italy, France, Belgium
Vermiglio is distributed by Modern Films: an award-winning film distributor and producer championing diverse, distinctive, contemporary stories. Modern Films focuses on working with rising and established talent worldwide and bringing innovative and engaging global stories to local audiences. It creates connections between content, context and curation, with a particular emphasis on pressing social issues of our time through the power of cinema, creative freedom and cultural expression.
