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L'accabadora

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Original title

L'accabadora

Year

2015

Running time

97 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Enrico Pau

Screenwriter

Antonia Iaccarino, Enrico Pau, Igor Tuveri. Novel: Michela Murgia

Cast

Music

Stephen Rennicks

Cinematography

Piers McGrail

Producer

Co-production Italy-Ireland;

Film Kairòs, Mammoth Films, RAI Cinema, Windmill Lane Pictures, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Irish Film Board, Sardinian Film Commission, Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna

Genre

Drama | 1930s

Synopsis

Annetta kept the inherited secret of mercy killing passed down through her mother. In her ancestral Sardinian world, she is the Accabadora: despite her young age, she is a strong woman compelled to live her life handling with the death under the severity of an ancient ritualism. But the II World War is bringing deep social changes, helping Annetta to go beyond the purgatory of her condition discovering the unexplored path of love.

Awards: 2015: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection

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L'accabadora

2015

Enrico Pau