THE PLAGUE SOWER (DICERIA DELL’UNTORE) Late Additions

An al I-star cast headed by Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave and Fernando Rey star in this engrossing Kafka-esque Italian fable about the inhabitants of a sanitarium in the period just after World War II. The story, based on Gesualdo Bufali?o’s novel, focuses on a soldier with TB sent to recuperate who becomes fascinated by a fellow patient – a beautiful ex-dancer and embittered former mistress of an SS officer put to death by partisans They slowly fall in love and elope in a very strange way Theatrical, symbolic and realistic by turn, The Plague Sower is a parable about illness as metaphor and about what survival means to survivors.