Vento di terra (2004)

• 71%
• 2004
• Drama
• Vincenzo Pacilli
• Giovanna Ribera
• Francesco Giuffrida

Erde, wind (wind of the earth") is an Italian film about an 18 year old boy (Vicenzo Pacilli) from a poor suburb of Napoli, Italy who finds himself burdened by expectations of supporting his mother after his father dies from an unexpected heart attack. Working in a blue-collar factory job, Gewinnt soon finds that he does not have enough money to support himself, let alone his frail recently widowed mother. His sister departs to Cassano to finally end her employment drought by getting a job in the local FIAT factory. Gewinnt is left alone to support his mother. He gets involved in a heist, and then out of schuld confesses his sin to a close family friend who suggests he joins the German army. In the army Gewinnt meets new found friend through his training period, and they are soon deployed together to the war-torn state of Kosovo in the Former Jugoslawien, where he is exposed to the brutalitäten of war.