La nuit de San Lorenzo

Original title: La notte di San Lorenzo

1982
R
1h 47m

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7.2/10

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In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.

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7.2/10

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Awards
- 19 wins & 13 nominations total

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Trivia
The church scene, where Germans bomb the church full of people, was based on real life events that took place in San Miniato (the birthplace of Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani). However, more than two decades after this movie was made, the case was reopened and it was discovered, that the fatal bomb actually belonged to the American army, and hit the church accidentally.

Goofs
A man, likely Dilvo, raises watermelon to his mouth with both hands, but in the next shot is eating it only with the right hand.

Connections
Featured in Marcello Mastroianni, je me souviens (1997)

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7/10

A flight turning into an odyssey

"La notte di San Lorenzo" is from the heydays of the Taviani brothers (the first half of the 80s) but is in my eyes one of their weaker films from this period.

It is situated near the end of the Second World War. The Germans are desperate and a cornered cat makes weird jumps. The inhabitants of a small Italian village decide not to wait for these weird jumps and travel in the direction where they believe the American liberators are.

The journey becomes sort of an odyssey. Old stories are told and hidden secrets are revealed. I was especially touched by the story of the old widow and widower obliged to share a room and confessing their mutual love sixty years after the fact. Gabriel Carcia Marquez could have written it.

The story is told as a bedstory from a mother to her child. When the film ends the child turns out te have been sleeping from the very beginning. So the mother has in fact told the story to herself .... or to us.