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The first light of dawn. The sound of a boat and the screech of birds fill the wide expanse of sea. Black rocks emerge from the water, the “sciara” – the volcanic scoria – of Stromboli, the underwater sulfurous emanations, the layers of reddish rock eroded by the sea. The roar of the volcano can be heard, the flames and the liquid lava are thrown skyward. As nature unleashes itself, the fishermen row toward the shore, the sheep stray and the women return home.

Isole.di.fuoco.1955.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	10 min 48 s
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Vittorio De Seta – Isole di fuoco AKA Islands of Fire (1955 first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

Lu.tempu.di.li.pisci.spata.1955.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	10 min 41 s
Size: 	1.14 GiB
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Vittorio De Seta – Lu tempu di li pisci spata AKA The Age of Swordfish (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Sardinian shepherds Michele, Peppeddu encounter bandits. Michele evades police, sheep perish. Wrongly charged with murder, impoverished, Michele turns outlaw. He resorts to violence, banditry for survival, fueling a lawless spiral.

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Admirably tough, bracingly atmospheric tale set among the starkly picturesque hilly interior of Sardinia. The life of men and animals is implicitly a function of this landscape – and so, too, is De Seta’s film (which must have been an absolute nightmare to shoot.) The story is Biblical in its simplicity – and its implacable harshness. A shepherd, tending his scraggly flock with his young brother for the purpose of cheese-making, becomes wanted by the thuggish local carabinieri after they mistakenly conclude he’s part of a murderous bandit gang. This proves to be only the start of the hapless shepherd’s woes as he suffers the vicissitudes of a particularly capricious Fate – a downward spiral which eventually reaches a stunningly bleak and piercingly ironic conclusion. Though we’re informed by the opening voiceover that the film is set in “the present” (i.e. 1959/1960), much of what we see could have taken place at any time over the past few centuries, the presence of guns and the carabinieri’s uniforms being the only noticeable “modern” detail during the rural sequences which make up the vast majority of the narrative. The shepherd does make brief visits to visit his family in the nearest town, an environment which sinister and alien to us, just as it does to the protagonist whose perspective we so closely come to share. Photographed in striking black and white, the film boasts utterly convincing performances – this despite the fact that all of the dialogue is (as was standard among Italian productions of the period) post-synched, while the sparingly-used score is deeply, suitably ominous in effect. Some viewers may take issue with what could be seen as the more melodramatic turns in the narrative, but it’s De Seta’s achievement to make even the most cruelly extreme circumstances seem entirely of a piece with the characters and their milieu.

Bandits.of.Orgosolo.1961.BDRIP.Radiance.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
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Subtitles:English

The post Vittorio De Seta – Banditi a Orgosolo AKA Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

285MB | 11m 26s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D4E2CDACB5928AA/Vittorio_De_Seta_-_Solfatara.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Vittorio De Seta – Surfarara AKA Solfatara (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

From sunrise to sunset, Vittorio De Seta chronicles the lives of Sardinian women who look after both home and fields while their shepherd husbands are away tending their flocks.

418MB | 11m 14s | 1480×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5B423C87C056806/Vittorio_De_Seta_-_A_Day_in_Barbagia.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Vittorio De Seta – Un giorno in Barbagia AKA A Day in Barbagia (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This prize-winning short is a poetic portrait of life on the coast of Sicily before, during, and following a volcanic eruption.

402MB | 11m 14s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1D681D5DDC30EB7/Vittorio_De_Seta_-_Islands_of_Fire.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Vittorio De Seta – Isole di fuoco AKA Islands of Fire (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in winter.

393MB | 11m 28s | 1480×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5FC66EACA0B69D4/Vittorio_De_Seta_-_Orgosolo’s_Shepherds.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Vittorio De Seta – Pastori di Orgosolo AKA Orgosolo’s Shepherds (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.