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Once upon a time in Vigata, C'era una Volta Vigata

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Once upon a time in Vigata, C'era una Volta Vigata
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Intended audience
Rating: MA 15+. Strong sex scenes
Main title
Once upon a time in Vigata
Runtime
343
Sub title
C'era una Volta Vigata
Summary
The knight's move: In 1877, Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is sent back from Genoa to his native town Vigata, in Sicily, where he is tasked with the investigation of illegal activities caused by an unjust tax on milling, facing the dialectal and cultural barriers of post-unification Italy. He discovers the existence of a clandestine mill and an ingenious system by which the millers are left free to evade the tax, becoming involved, little by little, in something much greaterThe hunting season: Tells the story of a pharmacist, Alfonso La Matina or Fof to his friends, who arrives in Vigata in 1880. Sicily is still the scene of clashes between the Savoy and the brigands. In the turmoil of the socio-political climate Fof decided to return home to open his pharmacy after studying internationally. Coinciding with his return, however, strange events begin to occur - sudden and inexplicable deaths, in which the Peluso, the most powerful family of Vigata, are certainly involved, but which also suggest a responsibility of the recent pharmacistThe telephone concession: A comedy of misunderstandings with surreal implications, set at the end of the nineteenth century in Vigata, the fictional town where the Andrea Camilleri set all his novels, up to the adventures of Inspector Montalbano. The simple request to activate a telephone line, advanced by Mr. Genuardi, triggers a chain of misunderstandings and cheating that becomes a metaphor for an existential condition
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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