Two brothers, one buffalo farm, and the mob coming for their land. Southern Italian noir hits different.
Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
Acting
Massimiliano Gallo's simmering, never-explodes performance
Cinematography
Mist-shrouded Campanian wetlands as suffocating character
Direction
Olivares lets dread accumulate like toxic groundwater
Director
Diego Olivares
Massimiliano Gallo
Cosimo Cardano
Luisa Ranieri
Rosaria
Salvatore Esposito
Rino Caradonna
Miriam Candurro
Rino Caradonna
Gennaro Di Colandrea
Ezio Cardano
Nando Paone
Donato Vasile
Marianna Robustelli
Lucia
Enzo Casertano
Oncologo
Fabiola Balestriere
Irene Caradonna
Gaetano Amato
Tammaro
Ciro Capano
Bocchetti
Elvis Esposito
Agente immobiliare
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caserta's 'Land of Fires' is real: the region has hundreds of illegal toxic dumps controlled by Camorra clans, making this essentially docufiction.
The buffalo—silent, lumbering, commodified—mirror the brothers themselves: bred for production, disposable when inconvenient.
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