Synopsis
The film recounts the life of the Bandini Italian immigrant family in Colorado during the cold winter of 1925. During the winter, there is hardly any work to be found for the poor Italian immigrant and bricklayer Svevo Bandini. His beautiful wife can hardly love him under the difficult circumstances and begins to distrust him when he keeps doing sketchy jobs for the super-rich, but lonely widow Hildegarde. Bandini’s eldest son, Arturo, sees what is happening and tries to do something about it in his own way.
Info
Release
1989
Genre
Tragicomedy
Status
Released
Director
Dominique Deruddere
Screenplay
Dominique Deruddere
based on the novel by John Fante
Producer
Dusk (BE)
CFC (F)
Zoetrope Studios (USA)
Co-producers
Intermedias (F)
Basic Cinematografica (I)
Cast
Joe Mantegna
Ornella Muti
Faye Dunaway
Josse De Pauw
Synopsis
The film recounts the life of the Bandini Italian immigrant family in Colorado during the cold winter of 1925. During the winter, there is hardly any work to be found for the poor Italian immigrant and bricklayer Svevo Bandini. His beautiful wife can hardly love him under the difficult circumstances and begins to distrust him when he keeps doing sketchy jobs for the super-rich, but lonely widow Hildegarde. Bandini’s eldest son, Arturo, sees what is happening and tries to do something about it in his own way.
