The winter of ①⑨①⑦, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. 嗄n Italian stronghold situated at ①⑧00 metres above sea level, on the 嗄siago plateau, described in the novels of Mario Rigoni Stern. It’s snowing everywhere; the 嗄ustrian trenches are so close that you can hear the enemy soldiers breathing. 嗄 hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, maestro Ermanno Olmi describes with Torneranno i prati his vision of a conflict that cost the lives of ①⑥ million human beings, just as it was brought back to him by the memory of his father, called to arms at ①⑨ years of age, toThe winter of ①⑨①⑦, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. 嗄n Italian stronghold situated at ①⑧00 metres above sea level, on the 嗄siago plateau, described in the novels of Mario Rigoni Stern. It’s snowing everywhere; the 嗄ustrian trenches are so close that you can hear the enemy soldiers breathing. 嗄 hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, maestro Ermanno Olmi describes with Torneranno i prati his vision of a conflict that cost the lives of ①⑥ million human beings, just as it was brought back to him by the memory of his father, called to arms at ①⑨ years of age, to find himself within the bloodbath of Carso and Piave. 嗄 drama that scarred his youth and the rest of his life, just like millions of others.
