Plot
Michele, a shepherd of Orgosolo unfairly charged with rustling and murder, is forced to take to the hills. In his flight into the inaccessible areas of Barbagia, where there is neither water nor pastures, he loses every sheep in his flock.
One night, desperate because he is full of debts, and with impending trials up ahead, he goes into the sheepfold of another shepherd and, at gunpoint, steals every sheep.
Michele has become a bandit.
Vittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is about a shepherd who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost. It is the first member of a trilogy about redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees and religious leaders accuse him of welcoming and eating with "sinners."
The Good Shepherd is an image used in the pericope of John 10:1–21, in which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 34:11–16. The Good Shepherd is also discussed in the other gospels, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Revelation.
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Achtung! Banditi! also known as Attention! Bandits! is a 1951 Italian World War II film drama directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Gina Lollobrigida and Andrea Checchi.
Valentino Bucchi was an Italian composer.
A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherd derives from Old English sceaphierde. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations, it exists in all parts of the globe, and it is an important part of pastoralist animal husbandry.
Bandits in Milan is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. It is the debut film of Agostina Belli.
No Peace Under the Olive Tree is a 1950 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé and Folco Lulli. It was the director's follow-up to Bitter Rice (1949) which also starred Vallone. It was originally planned to partner him with Silvana Mangano again, but due to her pregnancy she was replaced by Lucia Bosé. Despite the commercial success of Bitter Rice, the Communist De Santis had been stung by left-wing criticism due to American cultural elements included the film which he purposefully excluded from the follow-up. He also included characters who were less ambiguous and concluded with a happy ending, similar to those of Socialist realism.
Détour De Seta is a 2004 documentary film directed by Salvo Cuccia about Vittorio De Seta.
Il mondo perduto(The lost world) is a DVD release of ten short documentaries films directed by Vittorio De Seta between 1954 and 1959.
Giovanni Corbeddu Salis was a Sardinian outlaw.
Un uomo a metà is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Seta. The film entered the competition at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, in which Jacques Perrin was awarded with the Volpi Cup for Best Actor.
The 22nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 20 August to 3 September 1961.
Sardinian banditry is a term which describes an outlaw behavior typical of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, dating back to the Roman Empire. Twentieth-century Sardinian banditry had economic and political overtones.
Jolanda Benvenuti was an Italian film editor. She worked on more than a 150 productions during her career, including several films directed by Roberto Rossellini.
Franco Pinna (1925–1978) was an Italian photographer of the second half of the 20th century and one of the main representatives of neorealism. He developed his work in black and white.
Gaetano De Negri, known professionally as Giuliani G. De Negri, was an Italian film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with film directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, having penned some and produced all of their films since 1961.
Graziano Mesina, also popularly known as Gratzianeddu in Sardinian language, is an Italian bandit of the Anonima sarda. He has escaped the authorities at least 10 times. He was called the "king of the kidnappers" by The New York Times in 1992. There have been books, songs, and at least one film about him.
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