Vermiglio, second work by Maura Delpero with Tommaso Ragno, is a Cinedora production with Rai Cinema, in co-production with Charades production (France) and Versus production (Belgium).
Shot in Trentino-Alto Adige, the film is set between 1944 and 1945 and follows the large family of a mountain teacher, in particular his three daughters, Lucia, Ada and Flavia: no longer children, not yet women, they are scarred by a single gunshot that decrees the end of their innocence.
Vermiglio is the setting and main location, but the snowy territories of Mezzana, Dimaro Folgarida, Pellizzano and Pejo in Trentino also provided locations.
Locations in Alto Adige included the wooded landscapes of Bassa Atesina, with their evocative, timeless atmosphere, and the Convent of San Floriano in Laghetti near the municipality of Egna, at the foot of mount Madrutta. Deep in the woods, far from residential settlements, the 13th century Romanesque building was the main set for the convent scenes while the mountain hut location was built in the back courtyard.
Another room in the convent was used in the scene of Lucia’s dream, transformed into a Sicilian landscape where she travels in sleep. In another scene, newborns sleep in cribs next to the window in a bare room and, the cell where we see Ada, one of the sisters, as a nun, is also part of the convent.
Vermiglio, second work by Maura Delpero with Tommaso Ragno, is a Cinedora production with Rai Cinema, in co-production with Charades production (France) and Versus production (Belgium).
Shot in Trentino-Alto Adige, the film is set between 1944 and 1945 and follows the large family of a mountain teacher, in particular his three daughters, Lucia, Ada and Flavia: no longer children, not yet women, they are scarred by a single gunshot that decrees the end of their innocence.
Vermiglio is the setting and main location, but the snowy territories of Mezzana, Dimaro Folgarida, Pellizzano and Pejo in Trentino also provided locations.
Locations in Alto Adige included the wooded landscapes of Bassa Atesina, with their evocative, timeless atmosphere, and the Convent of San Floriano in Laghetti near the municipality of Egna, at the foot of mount Madrutta. Deep in the woods, far from residential settlements, the 13th century Romanesque building was the main set for the convent scenes while the mountain hut location was built in the back courtyard.
Another room in the convent was used in the scene of Lucia’s dream, transformed into a Sicilian landscape where she travels in sleep. In another scene, newborns sleep in cribs next to the window in a bare room and, the cell where we see Ada, one of the sisters, as a nun, is also part of the convent.
Cinedora, Charades, Versus, Rai Cinema
In four seasons, nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature. You can lose the path that led safely home, you can sail seas towards unknown lands. Across four seasons, you can die and be reborn. Vermiglio tells the story of a large family during the last year of WWII that, by a twist of fate, loses its peace with the arrival of a refugee soldier, at the very moment that the world is regaining its own.
