Exploring the colours and sounds of the Tuscan countryside’s increasingly abandoned territories, Benvenuti discovers, amongst old peasants, the remnants of an ancient and endangered tradition: the maggio, a form of popular poetry dating back to the Middle Ages.
Also in this combined programme
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Medea, un maggio di Pietro Frediani
Benvenuti films with commendable rigueur the performance of a maggio based on the character of Medea, staged by peasants in an old oil mill. -
Bambini di Buti
Between documentary and fiction, Benvenuti leads a bunch of kids to the rediscovery of the ancient tradition of the maggio. -
Il cantamaggio
Introduced by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, this documentary researches on the tradition of the maggio (May), a brand of poetry performed by Tuscan pea
Film details
- Country of production
- Italy
- Year
- 1971
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP
