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Director
  
Ermanno Olmi

Music director
  
Franco Piersanti

Duration
  

Language
  
Italian

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Family, Fantasy

Screenplay
  
Ermanno Olmi

Country
  
Italy

The Secret of the Old Woods movie poster

Release date
  
1993

Based on
  
Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio by Dino Buzzati

Writer
  
Dino Buzzati (story), Ermanno Olmi

Cast
  
Paolo Villaggio
(Col. Procolo),
Giulio Brogi
(Bernardi),
Riccardo Zannantonio
,
Lino Pais Marden
,
Luciano Zandonella

Similar movies
  
Paolo Villaggio movies, Directed by Ermanno Olmi, Movies about Italy

The Secret of the Old Woods (Italian: Il segreto del bosco vecchio) is a 1993 Italian fantastic drama film written, directed and starred by Ermanno Olmi. It is based on the novel with the same name by Dino Buzzati.

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For his performance Paolo Villaggio won the Nastro d'Argento for best actor. The film also won the David di Donatello for best cinematography.

Plot

The general Sebastiano Procolo lives in a little village in the mountains boundless, in a small wooden house near a dense forest, called the "Old Woods". He is there on behalf of his nephew, owner of the reserve; however the general has the ambition to destroy all the trees in order to enrich. One night he discovers that the forest is inhabited by strange invisible creatures that whisper continually being released to resume again in the power of the ancient forest. Sebastiano initially don't understand the situation, but after as in a dream vision he realizes that these creatures have been imprisoned long ago by himself.

Cast

  • Paolo Villaggio as Sebastiano Procolo
  • Giulio Brogi as Bernardi
  • Riccardo Zannantonio as Benvenuto Procolo
  • Lino Pais Marden as Giovanni Aiuti
  • References

    The Secret of the Old Woods Wikipedia
    The Secret of the Old Woods IMDb The Secret of the Old Woods themoviedb.org