L’ultima volta che siamo stati bambini, Claudio Bisio’s directorial debut, brings the novel by Fabio Bartolomei to the big screen.
The rousing and adventurous story set during WWII focuses on four 10-year children: Cosimo (Vincenzo Sebastiani), Italo (Alessio Di Domenicoantonio), Riccardo (Lorenzo McGovern Zaini), Vanda (Carlotta De Leonardis). They do not know that they are “different” and together they create “the best friendship in the world”, impervious to the divisions created by the war around them. In the courtyard, they play games of a fantasy war filled with adventurous missions and heroic acts where they make a “spit” pact of brotherhood, to avoid having to cut themselves.
On 16 October 1943 Riccardo is taken by the Nazis with over 1000 people from the Jewish Ghetto of Rome. Thanks to Italo’s father, a Fascist official, the three friends think they know where to find him and, to keep the faith of their spit pact, secretly set off to find him. Agnese (Marianna Fontana), a nun from Vanda’s orphanage, and Vittorio (Federico Cesari), Italo’s brother and a fascist war hero, set off to look for the children.
The children and the adults journey separately through Italy, a country wracked by war, with exhausted soldiers, deserters, platoons of occupying Nazis and starving citizens, in Lazio and Tuscany. The first part of the film is set in Rome, with several scenes shot in the heart of the city. The second takes place in the provinces of Siena and Grosseto, with numerous scenes shot on the former Asciano-Monte Antico train line, at the station of Sant’Angelo Cinigiano and Buonconvento.
L’ultima volta che siamo stati bambini, Claudio Bisio’s directorial debut, brings the novel by Fabio Bartolomei to the big screen.
The rousing and adventurous story set during WWII focuses on four 10-year children: Cosimo (Vincenzo Sebastiani), Italo (Alessio Di Domenicoantonio), Riccardo (Lorenzo McGovern Zaini), Vanda (Carlotta De Leonardis). They do not know that they are “different” and together they create “the best friendship in the world”, impervious to the divisions created by the war around them. In the courtyard, they play games of a fantasy war filled with adventurous missions and heroic acts where they make a “spit” pact of brotherhood, to avoid having to cut themselves.
On 16 October 1943 Riccardo is taken by the Nazis with over 1000 people from the Jewish Ghetto of Rome. Thanks to Italo’s father, a Fascist official, the three friends think they know where to find him and, to keep the faith of their spit pact, secretly set off to find him. Agnese (Marianna Fontana), a nun from Vanda’s orphanage, and Vittorio (Federico Cesari), Italo’s brother and a fascist war hero, set off to look for the children.
The children and the adults journey separately through Italy, a country wracked by war, with exhausted soldiers, deserters, platoons of occupying Nazis and starving citizens, in Lazio and Tuscany. The first part of the film is set in Rome, with several scenes shot in the heart of the city. The second takes place in the provinces of Siena and Grosseto, with numerous scenes shot on the former Asciano-Monte Antico train line, at the station of Sant’Angelo Cinigiano and Buonconvento.
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Vincenzo Sebastiani, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Lorenzo McGovern Zaini
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Vincenzo Sebastiani, Federico Cesari, Claudio Bisio
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Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Vincenzo Sebastiani, Carlotta De Leonardis
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Marianna Fontana, Federico Cesari
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Carlotta De Leonardis, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Vincenzo Sebastiani, Lorenzo McGovern Zaini
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Carlotta De Leonardis, Marianna Fontana
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Vincenzo Sebastiani, Carlotta De Leonardis, Alessio Di Domenicantonio
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Claudio Bisio
Solea, Bartlebyfilm, Rosebud Entertainment Pictures, Medusa Film
Rome, Summer 1943. Four children play at wargames while real bombs explode all around: Italo is the son of the rich Fascist official, Cosimo, whose father is at the front, is always ravenous, Vanda is a pious orphan and Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don’t know that and together they create “the best friendship in the world”, impervious to the historical divisions causing bloodshed across Europe.
