Sideshow & Janus Films Take North American Rights To Venice Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Vermiglio’
deadline.comSideshow and Janus Films have acquired all North American rights to Vermiglio, written, directed and produced by Maura Delpero.
The drama recently had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. Yesterday, it screened in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sideshow and Janus are planning a theatrical release in the coming months. Vermiglio is set in 1944, in the titular high-mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat.
The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, are instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and to an unexpected fate.
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