2024 | Director: Gianni Amelio | Italy | 104 minutes | Italian with English subtitles
Free admission. No registration required — please arrive early to be guranteed a seat.
The year is 1918. In an Italy beset by regional divisions, World War I, and the Spanish flu, doctors Stefano and Giulio treat wounded soldiers returning from the front lines. As their military hospital overflows with patients, opposing politics threaten to tear their friendship apart. With historically-informed set design and costume, Gianni Amelio's Battlefield dramatizes the First World War like no Italian film before it. Thrust into a complex era of strife and dissent, viewers encounter a compelling representations of wartime humanity. How many self-inflicted injuries or sacrifices lie on the road to national and personal salvation? How will two doctors diagnose and combat the ills that plague Italians and their republic?
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies and the 18th Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema.
