Padre Padrone

Padre padrone also known as Father and Master, 1977 is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The Tavianis used both professional and nonprofessional actors from the Sardinian countryside.

The film opens in documentary fashion at Siligos elementary school that sixyearold Gavino Saverio Marconi is attending. His tyrannical peasant father Omero Antonutti barges in and announces to the teacher and the students that Gavino must leave school and tend the family sheep. Under his fathers watchful eyes and the victim of his sadistic behavior, Gavino passes the next fourteen years tending sheep in the Sardinian mountains. There he begins to discover things for himself and begins to rebel against his father.Gavino is rescued from his family and his isolation when he is called for military service. During his time with the army he learns about electronics, the Italian language and classical music, yearning all the while for a university education. ........

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