Scene from the film Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
Scene from the film Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
Scene from the film Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
Scene from the film Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
Scene from the film Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
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Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach

Direction
Year 
2019
Country
  • Italy
Runtime
70min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

In 1941, an Italian soldier is leaving for the Soviet front. The Fascist army is allied with the Nazi war machine. Victory seems close. The convoy moves forward, men are singing and hopeful. The soldier’s mind goes back to the melancholic fairy tales his Russian mother told him. Unlike his younger companions, he has already been to war, in Africa, and he fears it. The train crosses Europe, reaching the interminable expanses of the Ukrainian plains. As winter arrives, enthusiasm wanes under the first mortar shells, the cold and the snow. The most heartfelt desire is no longer victory, but rather a warm bed, food, and to go back home. The immense wind ravaged steppe seems to be inhabited by ghosts.

Details

  • Original Title
    Il Varco/Once More Unto the Breach
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini, Wu Ming
  • Cinematography
    Andrea Vaccari
  • Editing
    Maria Fantastica Valmori
  • Music
    Simonluca Laitempergher
  • Runtime
    70 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2019
  • Country
    • Italy
  • Format
    • Colour

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