The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present a new series of films portraying Sardinia, a region known for its crystal-clear waters and its wild land of priceless beauty.
The series opens with the film The Mute Man of Sardinia, directed by Matteo Fresi, set in the mid-nineteenth century in Gallura, the north-eastern area of Sardinia, and tells of a feud between two local families, the Vasa and the Mamia.
The Mute Man of Sardinia (Il muto di Gallura)
Director: Matteo Fresi
Italy, drama, 2021, 103 min
With Andrea Arcangeli, Marco Bullitta, Giovanni Carroni, Syama Rayner
In Italian with English subtitels
Free entry, registration required
SYNOPSIS
Gallura, mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is bloodied in the region. Bastiano Tansu, deaf and dumb since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since childhood, after the assassination of his brother Michele he allies himself with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and puts his fury and infallible aim at his service, becoming a feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths does the peace of Aggius arrive. At the beginning Bastiano finds peace in the love for a shepherd’s daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him as the son of the devil as a child, someone like him cannot be considered innocent. So, he chooses to face his destiny.