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The Night of the Shooting Stars
(La Notte di San Lorenzo)

Screening on Film
Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
With Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli.
Italy, 1982, 35mm, color, 105 min.
Polish and German with English subtitles.

A woman recalls the struggles of her Tuscan village with Fascism during World War II one evening while wishing upon a shooting star. This moving account of the final gasp of Nazi occupation in Italy combines harrowingly graphic battle sequences with a moving sense of magical realism. The Taviani brothers' acclaimed portrayal of resistance fighters was celebrated with a Special Jury Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and cited as best of film of the year by the National Society of Film Critics.

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