Il ladro di bambini (1992)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Gianni Amelio

Writers:

Giorgia Cecere (dialogue) and
Gianni Amelio (writer)

Release Date:

3 March 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage...

Plot Keywords:

Children | Mother Daughter Relationship | Brother Sister Relationship | Child Abuse | Police Custody

Awards:

12 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Enrico Lo Verso	...	Antonio
Valentina Scalici	...	Rosetta
Giuseppe Ieracitano	...	Luciano
Florence Darel	...	Martine
Marina Golovine	...	Nathalie
Fabio Alessandrini	...	Grignani
Agostino Zumbo	...	Priest
Vitalba Andrea	...	Antonio's Sister
Massimo De Lorenzo	...	Papaleo
Celeste Brancato	...	Girl at Dinner
Vincenzo Peluso	...	Carabiniere
Santo Santonocito	...	Carabiniere
Renato Carpentieri	...	Chief of Police
Maria Pia Di Giovanni	...	Mother of Rosetta and Luciano
Lello Serao	...	Arrested Man

Also Known As:

Les enfants volés (France)
The Stolen Children

Runtime:

114 min | Finland:116 min (1993)

Country:

Italy | France | Switzerland

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-10 | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Marina di Ragusa, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

Company:

Alia Film

Trivia:

Enrico Lo Verso was the only member of the main cast to be a professional actor.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Joannis Amaelii, animula, vagula blandula (1992)

italy road movie north to south

The story of a young carabiniere that has been assigned the job to escort a couple of minors from Milan to their native Sicily. Stops along the way include the riviera (around Genova or Livorno), Rome, Calabria. Travel is done by train and by car. We see segments of italy in their socio-economic regional realities. The folks in Calabria are seen living next to a busy road in a house with no stucco covering the bare bricks, a common tactic used in the south to qualify for a taxation exemption (being the house not completed). Smartly filmed, it candidly reveals an Italy closer to what natives struggling to make a living would experience in having to travel along the length of the Italian booth. This is a fictional movie, but there is an effort to make evident how realistically people live today.