I'm Not Scared (2003) on Netflix
In southern Italy, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano roams the wheat fields with the town's children. He returns to a ruined farmhouse for his sister's glasses and finds a boy chained in a hole.
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Plot summary
The summer of 1978, in Acqua Traverse, a town in southern Italy ringed by wheat fields. Michele Amitrano, nine years old, rides out with the other children across the scorched countryside while the adults shelter indoors. A race takes the group to a deserted farmhouse, where Michele pays a forfeit by walking a beam high inside the barn. He goes back alone for the glasses his sister Maria dropped, and beneath a sheet of metal outside he finds a hole. In it lies a boy his own age, chained and weak. Michele tells no one and returns with water, then food. His father Pino drives a truck and is often away from home.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I'm Not Scared (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Most of the cast, especially the children, were local people with no acting or filming experience; lead Giuseppe Cristiano had never appeared in a film before, and the director consulted psychologists about the shoot's impact on the residents.
- Kidnappings became so common in 1970s Italy that the government automatically froze the assets of families whose abducted children had been contacted by people demanding a ransom, in order to discourage the practice.
