35mm

The Night of the Shooting Stars

La Notte di San Lorenzo
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

The Taviani brothers’ crowning achievement and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, The Night of the Shooting Stars remains one of world cinema’s great war films.

DIRECTOR
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
YEAR
1982
COUNTRY
Italy
RUNTIME
105 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
La Notte di San Lorenzo

The Taviani brothers’ crowning achievement and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, The Night of the Shooting Stars remains one of world cinema’s great war films. The story of a group of Italians in Tuscany fleeing the Nazis, who intend to bomb their small town before it can be liberated by the Americans, this is an enthralling chronicle of everyday people refusing to sit back and wait for history to redeem them, instead seeking their own salvation. This tonally eclectic, humanistic masterwork affectingly melds comedy, tragedy, and melodrama to convey the resilience of the Italian people during the war’s darkest hours.

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