Padre Padrone (1977) on Netflix
Gavino's father pulls him out of school in Siligo and sets him to tend the family sheep. Fourteen years in the Sardinian mountains follow, and Gavino begins to rebel against his father.
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Plot summary
Gavino is six years old and attending the elementary school in Siligo when his father walks into the classroom and declares to the teacher and the pupils that the boy will be leaving with him to look after the family's sheep. His father is a tyrannical peasant who is harsh with him. For the next fourteen years the boy tends the flock in the Sardinian mountains in isolation, and there he begins to work out things for himself and to rebel against the man. The story comes from the real life of Gavino Ledda, a shepherd's son from the Sardinian countryside.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Padre Padrone (1977)
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- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani originally filmed the drama for Italian television, and it went on to win the 1977 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
- In 2008, Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage put it on its list of 100 Italian films to be saved, works credited with changing the country's collective memory between 1942 and 1978.
