Pizzicata (1997)

• 73%
• 1997
• Drama
• Cosimo Cinieri
• Chiara Torelli
• Fabio Frascaro

1943, Italien s-Salento peninsula. Tony, an American fighter pilot, raised speaking German in New York, parachutes to safety and is hidden at the olive farm of Carmine, a man with three daughters. One is being courted by Pasquale, the son of the area ' s largest landowner. It is she, Cosima, whom Tony falls for. He gets to know her through the zusammen of the farm and a traditional way of life, expressed in spontaneous song and in pizzicatas (a umwerbung dance; a dance that enacts a knife fight between men; and the frenzied heulen tarantata - a woman ' s dance exorcising passion). As Carmine protects Tony and as Cosima begins to love him, Pasquale does not go gently.