Baar%C3%ACa (film)

Baara is a 2009 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.

Subplots include one about a boy running an errand, a living fly locked inside a top, three rocks people try to hit in one throw, a man mutilating himself to avoid having to fight in the war, looting while the U.S. invades Sicily, making clothing from an American parachute, and Peppinos daughter calling her father a fascist for not allowing her to wear a miniskirt. Running through the film however is the main subplot concerning the history of the Italian left especially the Communist Party of which Peppino is a lifelong member. It charts his fight against injustice and eventual disillusionment in the face of corruption and compromise by his fellow politicians.The film was shot in both Bagheria, where Tornatore was born, and in an old neighborhood of Tunis, Tunisia the latter location used because it could better depict what Bagheria looked like in the early 20th century. ........

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