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One year in a small northern Italian coastal town in the late 1930s is presented. The slightly off-kilter cast of characters are affected by time and location, the social mores dictated largely by Catholicism, and the national fervor surrounding Il Duce aka and Fascism. The stories loosely center on mid-teen Titta and his household, including his adolescent brother, his ever-supportive mother who is always defending him against his father, his freeloading maternal Uncle Lallo, and his paternal grandfather who slyly has eyes and hands for the household maid. Other townsfolk include: town beauty Gradisca, who can probably have any man she wants but generally has none as most think she out of their league; Volpina, the prostitute; Giudizio, the historian; a blind accordionist; and an extremely buxom tobacconist. The several vignettes presented include: the town bonfire in celebration of spring; life at Tittas school with his classmates and teachers; Tittas father Aurelio at his beachfront construction worksite and his and his workmates encounter with Volpina; Tittas confessions to the priest about his burgeoning sexuality; Aurelio being questioned by authorities about his anti-Fascist leanings; a fantasy sequence at the luxurious Grand Hotel; a family outing with Aurelios institutionalized brother Teo; many townsfolk embarking on a sail to witness a marine event passing by their town; an annual car race; Tittas fantasy encounter with the tobacconist after closing hours coming true; events surrounding the big snowfall that year, including a family tragedy; and an event centering on Gradisca and her future.
As sexually-frustrated young adolescent Titta anxiously awaits the arrival of spring at an Italian seaside town in s Fascist Italy, a vivid tapestry of interlacing vignettes unfolds. Over the course of a single year, the wide-eyed childhood curiosity, the exciting emotional experiences, vain obsessions, and fervent but dormant pubescent desires coexist with religion, politics, sex, and love. Pivoting around Tittas loud family, little by little, an ever-changing kaleidoscope of 1930s imagery lures Titta into an entire universe of life-altering moments and undiluted teenage fantasies: the quintessential ingredients of ones undying recollections. Will the towns belle Gradisca ever find what she is looking for? Does the wild blonde temptress Volpina want to settle down? Above all, will the small villages effortlessly tempting tobacconist grant Tittas wish?
Magali Noël
Gradisca
Bruno Zanin
Titta
Pupella Maggio
Miranda
Armando Brancia
Aurelio
Ciccio Ingrassia
Teo
Nando Orfei
Patacca
Luigi Rossi
Lawyer
Gianfilippo Carcano
Baravelli
Josiane Tanzilli
La Volpina
Maria Antonietta Beluzzi
Tobacconist
Giuseppe Ianigro
Grandpa
Ferruccio Brembilla
Fascist
Antonino Faà di Bruno
Count
Mauro Misul
Philosophy Professor
Nando Villella
Prof. Fighetta
Antonio Spaccatini
Federale
Aristide Caporale
Giudizio
Gennaro Ombra
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