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Eureka! Classics | Il Cielo Cade – Starring Isabella Rossellini

In the summer of 1944, Penny and her younger sister ‘Baby’, orphaned by a car accident, are taken to live with their mother’s sister in an elegant villa in the Tuscan countryside. The aunt is married to a handsome German Jew, a lover of music and the arts.

The entire story is viewed through Penny’s eyes. It is with her we explore the fascinating world which revolves around the island of happiness formed by the villa and its unconventional guests, as well as the surrounding rustic life, which depends on the villa.

The film portrays the simple events, which take place from the summer of 1944 until the tragic conclusion of the War. These include the friendships established with the peasant children, school, religious problems, the growing awareness of a cruel, inescapable reality, the discovery of the first furtive contacts of love and the magnetism of Uncle Wilhelm, an idealistic intellectual and advocate of justice. The Sky is Falling is adapted from the novel Il Cielo Cade by Lorenza Mazzetti.

Awards:
Winner of Italian Golden Globe, Giffoni Film Festival – Grifone D’Oro
Festival du Cinema Italien Villerupt – Prix du Public
Fort Lauderdale Film Festival – Best Film