The Crater is a land of underdogs, indistinct space, constant noise. Rosario is a street vendor, a gitane of village fairs, who gives away soft toys to whoever draws a winning number. The war he has declared against his own destiny has the immature and indolent body of his thirteen-year-old daughter: Sharon is pretty and can sing, and in this hotbed of stopgaps and desperate living, she’s his weapon for survival. But success becomes an obsession, and talent becomes a punishment.

Crater

In the summer of 1974, Elsa Morante's novel La Storia sparked a long debate that divided public opinion. For Natalia Ginzburg "the finest novel of this century," the story of ordinary people during World War II and the years immediately following touched raw nerves for the society and culture of the time, and its impact went far beyond the literary scene alone. Director Silvia Luzi portrays an extraordinary writer and allows us to rediscover one of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature. A new look at a particularly fierce era in Italian history, which is also important for understanding our times.

La Storia, the Scandal Novel

A young woman and a voice on the phone in a cold, mountainous southern Italy. A thin line separates needs from desires and imagination from reality.