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The Reno, or Italian Rhine, may not be as renowned as its Teutonic sibling. Nevertheless, as Lorenzo Pullega’s witty and playful film informs us, the banks alongside this river, which courses through northern Italy, has its own rich and undulating history.
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Original Language
IT

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.