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War of the Yokels, The

Original title: Guerra dei Cafoni, La
German title: War of the Yokels, The *
Italy, 2016

Director: Barletti, Davide, Conte, Lorenzo
Production company: Minimum Fax Media, La Luna
Co-producers: Rai Cinema
Length: 100 min.
Film genre: Feature film

Synopsis:
Summer 1975. In a village on the eastern coast of Puglia, a war is rekindled between the sons of the well-to-do familes and the children of the local fishermen, shepherds, and farmers: the so-called cafoni or bumpkins. Hostilities are declared by the leader of the well-to-do families, whose real first name is Angelo, but whose nickname bears the mark of a champion and of the perfidious: Francisco Marinho (a buccaneering Brazilian soccer star of the period), also known as the Evil One. Obsessed with his hatred for the cafoni - part buffoon, part local soccer-league George Bush - Francisco Marino fights in the name of the class division and historic continuity. When, however, out of a tragicomic misunderstanding, his vision of the world is undercut by a new dimension of compassion - or perhaps love - for a young cafona, or bumpkin woman, the separation between good and evil, previously always so clear, begins to cloud over.

Festivals:
Rome IFF 2016, Rotterdam IFF 2017, Buenos Aires IFF 2017, Sevilla IFF 2017, Munich IFF 2017

Website: www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=film&l=en&did=73372

World sales address/es:
Rai Com (IT)

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