Padre Padrone
A Sardinian shepherd, taken out of school as a boy to work in isolation by his tyrannical father, fights to gain language, learning and a self of his own.
Cannes Palme d'Or 1977 won
Gavino is pulled out of school as a small boy by his domineering father and sent to tend sheep alone in the Sardinian hills. Kept in near-total isolation and illiteracy for years, he slowly discovers music, language and learning, and begins to resist the father who has ruled his life.
The film stages the Oedipal break and the founding of a self through the hard-won grasp of speech, as a son wrests identity from a tyrannical father. Awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1977, and adapted from the memoir Padre padrone by Gavino Ledda.
Details
- 1977
- Italy
- Italian
- Film
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