Path of Hope (1950)

Original title

Il cammino della speranza

Directed by

Pietro Germi

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of sulfur miners in Sicily try to escape poverty by heading north. The film follows their hard journey as they face obstacles and seek a better life.

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What happens

Path of Hope (Italian: Il cammino della speranza) is a 1950 Italian language drama film directed by Pietro Germi that belongs to the Italian neorealism film movement. It is based on Nino Di Maria's novel Cuori negli abissi. Federico Fellini co-wrote the script. In July 2021, the film was shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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