The American backyard

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Original title
L´orto americano
Directed by
Pupi Avati
Cast
Filippo Scotti, Roberto De Francesco, Armando De Ceccon, Chiara Caselli, Rita Tushingham, Massimo Bonetti, Morena Gentile, Mildred Gustafsson, Romano Reggiani
Year
2024
Film run
107 min.
Language
Italian and english with subtitles (IT, ENG, CZ)
World sales
Minerva Pictures Group

Bologna, 1940. A young man falls desperately in love with a nurse of the American army. A year later, circumstances lead him to live in the American Midwest, right next to an ominous backyard, where the elderly mother of the nurse lives. The woman is desperate for her daughter, who, since the end of the conflict, has disappeared. The young man embarks on a tense search for the girl, experiencing a particularly dramatic situation, leading to an entirely unexpected conclusion back in Italy.