A Girl Returned
November 13, 2022
From the director of Cinema Italian Style hit Kidz comes an entrancing and emotionally precise meditation on childhood and family set in the summer of 1975.
Adapted from a 2017 best-selling novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Giuseppe Bonito’s third feature (winner of the 2022 David di Donatello Award for Best Adapted Screenplay) is an entrancing and emotionally precise meditation on childhood and family set in the summer of 1975. An adopted 13-year-old girl arrives at a farmstead, having been sent against her will to live with her biological family, whom she has never met before. Surrounded by strangers in a smaller, shabbier house than that of her wealthier adoptive parents, she must grapple with a new life in a new daily environment, as well as the feelings of abandonment brought on by her reunion with the family she never knew.
- Original Language Title: L’Arminuta
- Director: Guiseppe Bonito
- Principal Cast: Sofia Fiore, Carlotta De Leonardis, Vanessa Scalera, Fabrizio Ferracane, Elena Lietti
- Country: Italy, Switzerland
- Year: 2021
- Running Time: 113 min.
- Producer: Roberto Sbarigia, Maurizio Tedesco, Manuel Tedesco, Javier Krause
- Screenplay: Monica Zapelli, based on the novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
- Cinematographers: Alfredo Betrò
- Editors: Roberto Missiroli
- Music: Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia
- Website: https://truecolours.it/catalogue/a-girl-returned-larminuta/
- Awards: David di Donatello Awards 2022 (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- Filmography: Kidz (2020)
- Language: Italian
- International Sales: True Colours Glorious Films