Path of Hope

Path of Hope Italian Il Cammino della speranza is a 1950 Italian language drama film directed by Pietro Germi that belongs to the Italian neorealism film movement. It is based on Nino Di Marias novel Cuori negli abissi. Federico Fellini cowrote the script.

Women wait anxiously at a minehead in Capodarso, Sicily. Their men are underground. The mine is closing and the miners refuse to come up unless the owner relents. After three days, they give up in despair... In a bar in town, Ciccio is recruiting workers for jobs in France. He can get people over the border for L20,000 a head. Enough people to fill a bus, having sold their belongings to pay the fee, including Saro and his three young children, and Barbara and her man Vanni, whos in trouble with the law and desperate to flee Italy.After reaching Naples by train, Ciccio tries to slip away but is grabbed by Vanni. Vanni tells Barbara where to meet at the border if anything should go wrong. In Rome, Ciccio points out Vanni to the police. In the shootout, both Vanni and Ciccio escape. The others are arrested. They are ordered by the police to return to Sicily or be charged with illegal expatriation. ........

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