Four hours in a retirement home that'll wreck you—in the best way.
Le cinque stagioni is a four-part television drama directed by Gianni Amico and broadcast by RAI in 1976. Set in a retirement home, the film studies components, manias, small and large dramas of retirees.
Direction
Amico's patient observation—no rush, no pity, just truth.
Writing
Small dramas accumulate into something devastating.
Director
Gianni Amico
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1976 RAI commissioned this as prestige television—imagine a network today greenlighting four hours of elderly Italians waiting to die.
Amico shot in an actual retirement home with non-professional residents mixed among actors; the blurred line is intentional.
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