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THE STARS IN THE DITCH

Le strelle nel fosso

1979 • IT HMDB
March 24, 1979

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.

Directors

Pupi Avati

Cast

Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, Roberta Paladini, Giulio Pizzirani, Adolfo Belletti, Ferdinando Orlandi, Fernando Pannullo, Pietro Bona, Tonino Corazzari
Fantasy Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

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In a Padane farm of the eighteenth century where a father and four sons live, a wandering pianist arrives. At first, the men refuse this female presence, but then they decide to all marry the girl. Shortly after the long celebration for the multiple wedding, the pianist disappears. Another small masterpiece by the great Pupi Avati, unjustly held in little consideration and which instead turns out to be one of his most successful films. "The Stars in the Pit", again starring Gianni Cavina and Lino Capolicchio, is a story of ghosts and peasant fables, bizarre, moving, and terrifying at the same time. Avati's inclination for the macabre and the terrifying is revealed in this film at several points: the appearance of the ghost of a cleric who emerges from the waters of a lake or the chilling fairy tale of the dead mother who returns at night to reclaim from the daughters what they had stolen from her. Absolutely worth rediscovering.