SUB TUUM PRAESIDIUM

PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI - as PROD

First film - Completed 2017

"You can't put the past in your pocket; you have to have a house for it” J.P. Sartre

Festivals
& Awards

Festival dei popoli 2017
doc at work
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • First film, True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonella DI NOCERA (PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI), - - (ARCI MOVIE)
    • Synopsis
    • The film recounts a year in the life of an elderly family in a small settlement in the shadow of Monte
      Somma. The four core members (three siblings, Carmela, Concetta, Francesco and his wife Graziella)
      support themselves from the produce of the farmland beside the house. Carmela, the eldest of them
      and in poor health, is looked after by Graziella and Concetta as a mother would tend to her new-born
      child. Francesco spends most of his time in the fields looking after the crops. As a good head of the
      household, he feels the weight of responsibility and cannot tolerate things going wrong. The daily life
      of this family unfolds through situations that are repeated every day, like rituals. Two events,
      however, shatter the tranquillity of their lives: the trees in the hazelnut groves, the main source of the
      family income, are slow to germinate, thus putting Francesco in a state of crisis; and Carmela’s
      condition suddenly deteriorates, without any apparent remedy.