Padua and Verona are the set of Winter Harvest, a Astarox Productions LLC production in collaboration with Settembre Produzioni Srl and MovieStart Srl, directed by the Italian-American director Max Leonida.
The film focusses on a dark page in Italian history and the so-called "years of lead", the kidnapping of US General James Lee Dozier by the Red Brigades in 1981.
Filming starts in Verona on November 11, continuing for four weeks until December 7, and also involving Padua.
Rumours suggest that the cast includes Riccardo Leonelli as the commissioner who contributed to the liberation of Dozier.
The film takes place at the time marking the end of the so-called "years of lead" and the decline of the Red Brigades and tells a true story: the kidnapping of James Lee Dozier on December 17, 1981, when he was deputy chief of staff at the headquarters of NATO Land Forces Southern Europe (FTASE) in Verona. The American General was held captive for 42 days, until his release in Padua on January 28, 1982.