Lost and Beautiful

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Lost and Beautiful
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Directed by Pietro Marcello
Written byPietro Marcello
Maurizio Braucci
Produced bySara Fgaier
Pietro Marcello
StarringSergio Vitolo
CinematographySalvatore Landi
Pietro Marcello
Music byMarco Messina
Sacha Ricci
Release date
  • 9 August 2015 (2015-08-09)(Locarno Film Festival)
Running time
88 minutes
LanguageItalian

Lost and Beautiful (Italian : Bella e perduta) is a 2015 Italian fantasy-drama film produced, written and directed by Pietro Marcello. [1] [2] [3] It was entered into the main competition at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. [4]

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Plot

Pulcinella, mask of the Campania tradition, intermediary between the living and the dead, has the mission of fulfilling the last wishes of a simple Campania shepherd, Tommaso Cestrone: to rescue a buffalo named Sarchiapone.

Pulcinella then goes to the Royal Palace of Carditello, a Bourbon residence abandoned to itself in the heart of the land of fires, of which Tommaso was the voluntary guardian and where the young buffalo is found. He takes it with him to the north, on a long journey through a beautiful and lost Italy.

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