| Banditi a Orgosolo | |
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Seta |
| Written by | Vittorio De Seta Vera Gherarducci |
| Produced by | Vittorio De Seta |
| Starring | Vittorina Pisano |
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| Edited by | Jolanda Benvenuti |
| Music by | Valentino Bucchi |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo) is a 1961Italian film drama directed byVittorio De Seta. De Seta won an Award for the film at theVenice Film Festival.
Michele, a shepherd ofOrgoloso, Sardinia who is wrongly suspected of involvement with bandits he encountered who committed pig rustling and killed a policeman, flees to the hills with his flock, which he bought on credit after a poor previous year, and young shepherd brother, rather than surrender and risk losing them during the investigation and thus his family's income. He is pursued by police and, in his journey into the inaccessible areas ofBarbagia, where there is little water or pasture, loses his sheep.
One night, deep in debt and facing impendingtrials, he enters asheepfold and steals another shepherd's flock. Michele has become abandit.
Banditi a Orgosolo was De Seta's first fiction feature film. The film originally started as a documentary with the actors credited as Sardinian Shepherds.[1]
Michele Cossu was dubbed byGian Maria Volonté.[1]
Pathé-Contemporary Films releasedBanditi a Orgosolo in the United States in 1964.[2]
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