Padre Padrone (1977)

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this powerful true tale of one body's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film by the renowned taviani brothers, paolo and vittorio (night sun; good morning, babylon). based on the autobiography by gavino ledda, who at the age of six was taken from school into the mountains where his father enslaved him as a shephard. gavino eventually broke free discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.