A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
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Cast
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Omero Antonutti
Alfredo Bossi
Known for
El Sur
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Francesca De Sapio
Adele
Known for
The Godfather Part II
The Ties
Villi Hermann
Carlo Varini
Angelo Gregorio
Flavio Bucci
Il matlosa
Known for
Suspiria
Il Divo
Enzo Jannacci
Nico Pepe
Zio Poldo
Known for
Bitter Rice
Gentlemen Are Born
Giovanni Orelli
Luciano Berini
Roger Jendly
Vincent
Known for
Spy, Stand Up
Every Man for Himself
Walter Valdi
Il parroco
Known for
Velvet Hands
The Repeating Student Winked at Dean
Villi Hermann Director · Angelo Gregorio Writer Enzo Jannacci Composer
First release August 31, 1981 · Produced in Switzerland, Italy · Production RSI, RTSI
Production
Imagofilm Lugano
Production
RSI
Production
RTSI
Production
Switzerland · Italy
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Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · August 31, 1981
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
September 1, 1982 · Figueira da Foz Film Festival
Russia
July 1, 1983 · Moscow Film Festival
Switzerland
November 11, 1981 · Italian speaking region
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