original title:
Ultima fermata
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music:
Franco Eco, Paolo Jannacci, Flo, Sineterra
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country:
Italy
year:
2014
film run:
90'
format:
colour
release date:
14/10/2015
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This is the story of several generations of men and women whose lives have been bound by a legendary train line in the lands of South of Italy. The train line in the last century observed, like a mute spectator, entire families' departures and arrivals, love and hate stories full of joy and sorrow, as time passed by on the track line.
Francesco Capossela, a captain of the Military Police in Torino, comes back in the South for the funerals of his father Domenico, the train conductor of the Avellino-Rocchetta-S. Antonio train line, not currently in use anymore and soon to be fully dismessed.
Francesco, slowly and unintentionally, by discovering a secret diary which belonged to his father, will understand all those missed hugs and mysterious in-comprehensions which characterized the last years of his father’s life.
What Francesco thought were certainties now dissolve one after another, letting him feel new emotions which turn him into a different man. From the summer of ’65 to today the story of the Avellino-Rocchetta-S. Antonio's railway crosses and entangles to the life story of the train conductor Domenico Capossela.