Amelios film, however, while perfect for the local market, isnt exactly likely to cross over.
The director sets the scene with grim images of bodies piled higher and higher in bleak muddy trenches.
Stefano is a very interesting villain, a capable doctor who despises the sick and wounded.
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When the war ends, he says, the honest and most valorous men will all be dead.
The righteously wounded, however, get his praise one man, covered in bandages, in particular.
Youll get a medal, beams Stefano.
Can you fix my face?
pleads the man, addressing a concern that is much, much closer to his heart.
Stefano has his suspicions but, for dramatic purposes, he fights them.
Things come to a head when a new nurse, Anna (Federica Rosellini), arrives.
Theres immediately a connection between her and Guilio, who remembers her as a high-achiever from college.
We risk losing the war, an increasingly panicked Stefano tells his superior.
Well, we know where that line of thinking takes us.
