Good luck locating a copy of this film with English subtitles. I was lucky enough to see it at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004. It's a great Italian story about life in and around Naples, Italy. It really captures the 'real insides of Italy'. If you can ever see this story I would highly recommend it. I am sure if one does an internet search they can find a way to stream view this classic.
Vento Di Terra (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, Vince 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. Vince is left alone to support his mother.
He gets involved in a heist, and then out of guilt confesses his sin to a close family friend, who suggests he joins the Italian army. In the army Vince meets a new found friend through his training period, and they are soon deployed together to the war torn state of Kosovo in the Former Yugoslavia, where he is exposed to the brutality of war.
This film is gripping, even though it has a sad storyline. It does have an abrupt ending but the story in and of itself is so very well done. Some things remain unresolved but--like most movies--one has to leave filling in the blanks and using ones own imagination. Think of this one as a 'slice of Italian life'.
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