CALABRIA

After Don Vasari arrived at Crotone station, he met a taxi driver and asked to be driven to the Parish of San Crispino. This is actually the famous Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina in Piazza Duomo 7 (Crotone).Watcht the full movie at www.movieitalyplus.comPlot:Don Carlo Vasari is a nonconformist priest often at odds with the high hierarchs of the Church. For this reason he is sent to a juvenile prison in Crotone, southern Italy. Nino, a 16-year-old inmate, is accused of murder, but Father Speranza does not believe his guilt and undertakes a courageous personal investigation to clear his name.

The prison where Don Visari goes the morning after his arrival is the Casa Circodariale di Crotone, in Passovecchio. Nino, the boy who receives the letter, is played by Salvatore Cascio (Salvatore/Totò, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)Watcht the full movie at www.movieitalyplus.comPlot:Don Carlo Vasari is a nonconformist priest often at odds with the high hierarchs of the Church. For this reason he is sent to a juvenile prison in Crotone, southern Italy. Nino, a 16-year-old inmate, is accused of murder, but Father Speranza does not believe his guilt and undertakes a courageous personal investigation to clear his name.

The restaurant where Don Vasari meets Commissioner Altieri is the well-known Gambero Rosso, in Crotone, with its large spaces and surrounded by windows overlooking the sea. It immediately stands out for the brick colour of its exterior.Watcht the full movie at www.movieitalyplus.comPlot:Don Carlo Vasari is a nonconformist priest often at odds with the high hierarchs of the Church. For this reason he is sent to a juvenile prison in Crotone, southern Italy. Nino, a 16-year-old inmate, is accused of murder, but Father Speranza does not believe his guilt and undertakes a courageous personal investigation to clear his name.

The coast where they take Vincenzo Torrisi, surrounded by greenery, is at the archaeological park of Capocolonna. In the place where the last scenes of the film are filmed, one recognises the structure with the small lighthouse attached and the green promontory with the majestic Doric-style column that belonged to a cult building from the 5th century BC.Watcht the full movie at www.movieitalyplus.comPlot:Don Carlo Vasari is a nonconformist priest often at odds with the high hierarchs of the Church. For this reason he is sent to a juvenile prison in Crotone, southern Italy. Nino, a 16-year-old inmate, is accused of murder, but Father Speranza does not believe his guilt and undertakes a courageous personal investigation to clear his name.

The prefecture building where the citizens of Africo show up en masse to demand that a doctor be assigned to them is Palazzo Corrado Alvaro, the seat of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (and therefore former seat of the defunct province of the same name), located in Piazza Italy in Reggio Calabria.www.movieitalyplus.comPLOTIn Africo, a small town perched in the Aspromonte valley of Calabria, in the late 1950s, a woman dies in childbirth because the doctor cannot get there in time and because there is no connecting road. The men, exasperated by the state of neglect, go to protest to the mayor. They get the promise of a doctor, but in the meantime, led by Peppe (Francesco Colella), they decide to unite and build a road themselves. Everyone, including the children, gives up their usual occupations to accomplish the work. Giulia, the new elementary school teacher (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), comes from the North, and wants to teach Italian “if Africo is going to enter the world thanks to the road, the children will have to know it first, learning to read and write.” But for the brigand Don Totò, the one who dictates the real law, Africo cannot really become an 'Italian' town.... 

The church in front of which Andrea (Grillo) plays football with two friends is the Church of San Nicola, one of the few buildings left standing in the abandoned village of Africo Vecchio (Africo, RC).www.movieitalyplus.comPLOTIn Africo, a small town perched in the Aspromonte valley of Calabria, in the late 1950s, a woman dies in childbirth because the doctor cannot get there in time and because there is no connecting road. The men, exasperated by the state of neglect, go to protest to the mayor. They get the promise of a doctor, but in the meantime, led by Peppe (Francesco Colella), they decide to unite and build a road themselves. Everyone, including the children, gives up their usual occupations to accomplish the work. Giulia, the new elementary school teacher (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), comes from the North, and wants to teach Italian “if Africo is going to enter the world thanks to the road, the children will have to know it first, learning to read and write.” But for the brigand Don Totò, the one who dictates the real law, Africo cannot really become an 'Italian' town.... 

The clearing where Don Totò (Rubini) interrupts the circus show organized by Ciccio (Fonte) to scold the citizens of Africo is located at the back of the Church of Santa Maria de' Tridetti, located in Contrada Badia in Staiti (RC).www.movieitalyplus.comPLOTIn Africo, a small town perched in the Aspromonte valley of Calabria, in the late 1950s, a woman dies in childbirth because the doctor cannot get there in time and because there is no connecting road. The men, exasperated by the state of neglect, go to protest to the mayor. They get the promise of a doctor, but in the meantime, led by Peppe (Francesco Colella), they decide to unite and build a road themselves. Everyone, including the children, gives up their usual occupations to accomplish the work. Giulia, the new elementary school teacher (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), comes from the North, and wants to teach Italian “if Africo is going to enter the world thanks to the road, the children will have to know it first, learning to read and write.” But for the brigand Don Totò, the one who dictates the real law, Africo cannot really become an 'Italian' town....