Cortile Cascino (1962)

Directed by

Michael Roemer

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

46 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the daily lives of families living in a slum in Palermo, Italy. It focuses on a 23 year old woman named Angela Capra and her relatives in the Cortile Cascino neighborhood.

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What happens

Cortile Cascino is a 1962 documentary filmed, written and directed by Robert M. Young and Michael Roemer. The documentary was produced for NBC White Paper, a television series that ran on NBC from 1960 to 1980. The film details the lives of inhabitants living in a Palermitano slum (Cortile Cascino), in Palermo, Italy. The main focus of the film is 23 year old Angela Capra and her family. After viewing footage of the film, NBC deemed it too extreme for American viewers and two days before it was scheduled to be broadcast, NBC abruptly cancelled it. In 1987, Britain's public-service television Channel 4 indicated they wanted to broadcast the film, and asked Young to create a 10-minute update on the fate of Capra and her family. Young's son Andrewand his wife Susan Todd took an interest in the project and traveled back to Sicily, where they found Capra and her relatives still living in Palermo. Andrew and Todd instead made their own documentary, Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family, detailing what had transpired in Capra and her family's lives during the preceding 30 years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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