Michele Vannucci defines his second film as a river western which focuses on the conflict between two men and two ways of seeing the world: that of Osso (Luigi Lo Cascio) and his antagonist Elia (Alessandro Borghi) who is affiliated with a family of poachers, the Florians, who come from the Danube. Infused with the best intentions, the two men fall into violence in a metaphor for the contemporary conflict between indigenous populations and newcomers.
The setting is the park of the Po Delta in Emilia-Romagna, in the villages of Comacchio, Goro, Mesola, Codigoro, Argenta, Ravenna, Tresignana and Riva di Po. Locations also included Polesine Camerini, Porto Tolle, Santa Maria in Punta in Veneto (province of Rovigo) and the Danube delta in Romania. In the river territory that is also a border and continuously changing, the dialect differs from one village to the next, jumping from Veneto to Emiliano.
Michele Vannucci defines his second film as a river western which focuses on the conflict between two men and two ways of seeing the world: that of Osso (Luigi Lo Cascio) and his antagonist Elia (Alessandro Borghi) who is affiliated with a family of poachers, the Florians, who come from the Danube. Infused with the best intentions, the two men fall into violence in a metaphor for the contemporary conflict between indigenous populations and newcomers.
The setting is the park of the Po Delta in Emilia-Romagna, in the villages of Comacchio, Goro, Mesola, Codigoro, Argenta, Ravenna, Tresignana and Riva di Po. Locations also included Polesine Camerini, Porto Tolle, Santa Maria in Punta in Veneto (province of Rovigo) and the Danube delta in Romania. In the river territory that is also a border and continuously changing, the dialect differs from one village to the next, jumping from Veneto to Emiliano.