Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten

6.3 87 mins Drama   2019
Italian International Film  
Director(s): Mimmo Calopresti

At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.

Casts of Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten

Marcello Fonte

as Ciccio Italia

Marco Leonardi

as Cosimo

Sergio Rubini

as Don Totò

Romina Mondello

as Cicca

Carlo Marrapodi

as Massaro Salvatore

Fulvio Lucisano

as Anziano ritornato ad Africo

You might also like