VITTORIO DE SETA'S FIRST FEATURE FILM OF ABSOLUTE BEAUTY
"VITTORIO DE SETA IS A POET OF REALITY." PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
In the heart of the rocky and desolate mountains of Sardinia, Michele watches over his flock of sheep with his younger brother Giuseppe. One day, three strangers arrive at his sheepfold, wanted by the carabinieri for stealing pigs. Michele will find himself wrongly accused of the theft and then the murder of one of the gendarmes perpetrated by one of the thugs. To escape prison, the shepherd decides to flee into the mountains with his brother and his animals...
Fascinated by Sardinia and its inhabitants, filmmaker Vittorio De Seta decided to shoot his first feature film in this region: Bandits in Orgosolo , a fictionalized version of Sardinian reality seen from the point of view of a shepherd. At a time when Italian filmmakers were increasingly turning away from neorealism, De Seta loudly claimed the legacy of this movement. A rural cousin of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves , Bandits in Orgosolo was awarded Best First Film at the 1961 Venice Film Festival.
BANDITS IN ORGOSOLO by Vittorio De Seta
(1960 - Black & White - 96 min)
High Definition Master
Original version with French subtitles
Blu-ray or DVD edition
Unreleased on Blu-ray and DVD
SUPPLEMENTS *
. COMMUNION (29 min – HD*)
"The film is transcended by its extreme communion with those who are there and with the setting, nature, the place. It is as if Vittorio De Seta had internalized all the historical, social, political conditions to transform them into poetry." An unpublished interview with the director Dominique Cabrera ( Corniche Kennedy ).
. VITTORIO DE SETA: THE LOST WORLD (Colors – 117 mins – HD*) - Blu-ray Exclusive
10 short films made by Vittorio De Seta between 1954 and 1959 in the South of Italy.
Whether peasants, miners, fishermen or shepherds, Vittorio De Seta manages to capture the hard work of ancestral trades with lyricism and to the rhythm of popular songs.
. INTERVIEW WITH VITTORIO DE SETA (18 min)
In this interview conducted in 2008, Vittorio De Seta discusses the conception of his films, his editing and sound work and talks about his vision of a peasant world that has now disappeared.
. TRAILER 2022 (HD)
* in HD on the Blu-ray Disc™ version
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BD 50 • HIGH DEFINITION MASTER • 1080/23.98p • AVC ENCODING
Original Version DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 • French Subtitles
1.33 format respected • Black & White • Film duration: 96 mins
DVD 9 • NEW RESTORED MASTER • PAL • MPEG-2 ENCODING
Original Version Dolby Digital 1.0 • French Subtitles
1.33 format respected • 4/3 • Black & White • Film duration: 92 mins
Released June 6, 2023
