Visconti turns a child's murder into poetry you'll never unhear.
On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.
Direction
Visconti's neorealist eye finds beauty in the unwatchable.
Writing
Pratolini's narration—sparse, poetic, absolutely brutal.
Cinematography
Those wild flowers. That pit. You won't forget them.
Director
Luchino Visconti
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