Based on the novel A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2017 premio Campiello, L’arminuta tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who in the summer of 1975 is returned to her biological family, whom she has never met, passing in a flash from a comfortable existence in a middle-class home to a life of financial and cultural poverty in the Abruzzo countryside.
In the film adaptation, the humble country farmhouse where the returnee finds her new life is located on the edge of the Swiss village of Ollon. In general, the Abruzzo countryside of the novel was transferred to the Sabina area – shot mostly in the centre of Fara, in Montopoli and Mompeo and the centre of Latina, including piazza del Popolo which was turned back almost 50 years in time for the shoot.
Seaside scenes were shot on the Lazio coast, in particular in Civitavecchia, Fregene, Fiumicino, Cerveteri (Campo di Mare), Santa Marinella (Campolinaro).
Based on the novel A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2017 premio Campiello, L’arminuta tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who in the summer of 1975 is returned to her biological family, whom she has never met, passing in a flash from a comfortable existence in a middle-class home to a life of financial and cultural poverty in the Abruzzo countryside.
In the film adaptation, the humble country farmhouse where the returnee finds her new life is located on the edge of the Swiss village of Ollon. In general, the Abruzzo countryside of the novel was transferred to the Sabina area – shot mostly in the centre of Fara, in Montopoli and Mompeo and the centre of Latina, including piazza del Popolo which was turned back almost 50 years in time for the shoot.
Seaside scenes were shot on the Lazio coast, in particular in Civitavecchia, Fregene, Fiumicino, Cerveteri (Campo di Mare), Santa Marinella (Campolinaro).
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