Mario Monicelli – Proibito (1954)

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Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.

Don Paolo, Sardinian priest, returns home as a pastor in his native town, torn by hatred and revenge. He tries to restore peace and confidence in the law and deter Agnes, in love with him. He succeeds, but it’s hard.
In the film’s figurative and narrative scheme, in his vague westerns impression, fostered by the intense beauty of the landscape, the character of Nazzari, compared to the somewhat fuzzy others, has coherence and vitality.
First film by L. Massari (1934) and the second directed by Monicelli alone without Steno.
Based on the novel La madre (1920) by Grazia Deledda, written with Suso Cecchi D’Amico and Giuseppe Mangione.