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THE MIRACLE OF SINNERS

IL MIRACOLO DEI REI

By Alessandra USAI

Historical - Completed 2020

The docufiction tells the story of the miraculous intervention of the condemned, who sentenced to forced labor in the largest agricultural penal colony of Italy, in Castiadas (south-east coast of Sardinia), to reclaim a territory of 6300 hectares uninhabited for 350 years, unhealthy and malarian.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Historical, Female director, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 56 mn
- Director(s)
- Alessandra USAI
- Cast
- Nunzio CAPONIO, Matteo PIANEZZI, Mauro ADDIS, Mauro RACANATI, Katia MONNI
- Producer(s)
- Nicola MENNUNI (NICAL FILMS ), Alessandra USAI (HYPATIA PICTURES), Massimo CASULA (ZENA FILM), Enrico BUFALINI (ISTITUTO LUCE CINECITTA)
- Synopsis
- On 11 August 1875 the general inspector of the prisons of Italy, Eugenio Cicognani, with a handful of men and a dozen of prisoners disembarked on the Cala Sinzias' beach in Castiadas, arriving from San Bartolomeo's prison in Cagliari. From that day and for 80 years, the condemned hardly worked to redeem their sins by managing to reclaim the entire area and transforming it into one of the most fascinating places in Sardinia, while malaria was inexorably decimating them.
  A still unknown story that must teach us to appreciate the sacrifice of the many men, such as prisoners, guards and employee, who have worked and offered their lives to give us these precious lands as we know them today; an earthly paradise rich of values, beauties, traditions and culture. Clean beaches, crystal clear sea, forests and unspoiled country sides offer a healthy life in the nature.
  The story is told by intercalating the landscapes and beauties as they are today with the historical reconstructions developed from the description of all the documents and finds available of that period; fades that take us back in the time, animations that revive images of the past.