IFF25 The Mountain Bride - Vermiglio

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, THE MOUNTAIN BRIDE – VERMIGLIO is an atmospheric, visually breathtaking portrait of a family in the final year of WWII. Written and directed by Maura Delpero, drawing from her own family’s past and collective memory, this rich, intimate drama follows a series of consequential events in a village caught between tradition and modernity.

1944. In Vermiglio, a small mountain village high up in the Italian Alps, war looms as a distant but constant threat.

When reserved soldier Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico) arrives in the village, hiding out after deserting the army, he disrupts the family dynamics of local schoolteacher Cesare Graziadei (Tommaso Ragno, also in The Illusion and Sicilian Letters). Pietro is instantly drawn to Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), Cesare’s eldest daughter, leading to an unexpected fate. Over the course of four seasons, secrets swirl beneath the surface and as the world emerges from the tragedy of war, the family finds their lives transformed.

Italian language with English subtitles.