1944. Italy.On the Bolognese hills, a family of decayed aristocrats survives its own economic decline in the only place that they have left: the estate of Villa La Quiete.The solution to all their troubles turns up at the villa on a ordinary afternoon: a man and two women who are on the run, ask the dukes for shelter; they are Jews. They are disposed to pay one gold bar for each month of their permanence and they promise to relocate somewhere else right after the end of the war. The rents follow one another, the gold bars pile up and right in the moment the Duke and the Duchess finally glipmse an aristocratic renaissance, the war ends.Terrified by the possibility of loosing their only source of income, they faking that the conflict has not ended yet...
1944. Italy.On the Bolognese hills, a family of decayed aristocrats survives its own economic decline in the only place that they have left: the estate of Villa La Quiete.The solution to all their troubles turns up at the villa on a ordinary afternoon: a man and two women who are on the run, ask the dukes for shelter; they are Jews. They are disposed to pay one gold bar for each month of their permanence and they promise to relocate somewhere else right after the end of the war. The rents follow one another, the gold bars pile up and right in the moment the Duke and the Duchess finally glipmse an aristocratic renaissance, the war ends.Terrified by the possibility of loosing their only source of income, they faking that the conflict has not ended yet...
Directors: Antonio Pisu
Writers: Antonio Pisu- Federico Tolardo
Producers: Paolo Rossi
Key cast: Claudia Cardinale, Giancarlo Giannini, Raffaele Pisu, Ivano Marescotti, Nini Salerno, Tiziana Foschi.
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Student project: No
Completion date: 2016-05-28
Shooting format: Red
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Film color: Color
First-time filmmaker: Yes
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